On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 05:46:47PM -0700, anthony baldwin wrote: > > For instance, in the old console I could run /sbin/ifup as a user, > > but bash tells me that only user can do it. > > When I first upgraded I had not trouble doing it, but second log in and since > > I have had this issue. > > I miss my old console. > Do you mean that only root can run /sbin/ifup? That only depends on > the permissions of ifup. Allow any user to execute it and then make > it SUID root and you will be able to run it. If you put /sbin in your > path and you can run it as just ifup. Install modem lights on your > panel and you can run it with a click of your mouse, I don't think this will work. For one thing, you're not supposed to make scripts suid. I posted in another message about how to use USERCTL and a bug in the code for user-controlled wireless interfaces. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
