On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 02:52, Mike Avery wrote: > Paul Bolle wrote: > >Or would this trivial patch just hide a more serious problem? > > I believe it would. It is the administrator's job to adjust these > permissions if he/she wants to allow non privileged users to control > hardware. A silent denial would hide the remedy to this problem IMO. > > There may be another problem here though... You mentioned that this > error occurs when using the GUI. You should be prompted by > consolehelher for the root password before the GUI is presented. I > assume here that you are invoking redhat-config-network. > > Is this the case? > > Mike Avery No. I'm using redhat-control-network for GUI (but mostly I'm typing /sbin/ifup eth0 etc. on the command line). PLease note that I've checked "Allow all users to enable and disable the device" in redhat-config-network, which probably gave me a "USERCTL=yes" line in .../network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Paul Bolle