On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:31:39PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > 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. > You arr right. I forgot that ifup is a script. But you allow users to > execute it. Yes. But to allow users to do the things that root needs to do in ifup, ifup calls /usr/sbin/usernetctl, which is binary and setuid. Getting that to bring up the interface requires the aforementioned USERCTL=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ethX. And if that's not readable by the user (as with wireless in RH9), then it won't work. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
