On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, anthony baldwin wrote:
> >
> >There is nothing you can *not* do from the command line if you are root
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >except turn Bill Gates in a Gnome (under development).
>
> Can't run /sbin/ifup as user, which I could before.
Of course, if you are a user, you aren't root.
> Say, now come to think of it...Did I read somewhere that Shrike was
> changing the default terminal application?
>
> >
> >> For instance, in the old console I could run /sbin/ifup as a user,
> >> but bash tells me that only root can do it.
> >> When I first upgraded I had no trouble doing it, but second log in and since
> >> I have had this issue.
Is this a wireless link? If you want user control, make sure that
USERCTL=yes is set in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX. Also,
there is a bug in the network scripts that prevents users from controlling
wireless links, which have config file permissions that don't permit world
readability (Bugzilla #88568). One workaround is to make
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX world readable, but that exposes
the WEP key.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
