Re: network-functions: mild annoyance, trivial patch?

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Jaap A. Haitsma (jaap@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> Some questions out of curiosity, because I have the same annoyance.
> I gave users the right to do ifup and ifdown as well in 
> redhat-config-network. And I get the same error message, but ifup and 
> ifdown work fine. Is this because the WLAN card remembers the old key??

No.

What happens is:

runs as user
 - reads ifcfg-<foo>
   - tries to read keys-<foo> -> error
 - sees USERCTL=yes
 -> runs as root
    - reads ifcfg-<foo>
    - tries to read keys-<foo> -> success

Bill




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