On 2005 June 07 Tuesday 06:04, David Goodenough wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09:26, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:10:13 +0200, David Goodenough wrote: > > > Another item that might be worth considering for laptops is a > > > networking equivalent of the pmount group. People in these groups > > > would be allowed to edit the network files (in particular > > > /etc/network/interfaces) and bring interfaces up and down. > > > > http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/ > > > > -- > > Thomas Hood > > Reading the page at the URL I am a little unsure as to whether it requires > the user to have root access or knowledge of the root password, or if > the daemon simply does what the client code tells it to regardless.
From my understanding, it just uses dbus. There was a dbus article[0] in Red Hat Magazine in January that has a little information on dbus' handling of NetworkManager security. > I will download the code and see if I can make it work. I'd be interested in hearing about any issues you encounter when trying to make this work on Debian. > Has anyone made a DEB of it yet, apt-get.org could not find one. I started to, because there was a stretch where I actually had a laptop to use (a loaner from work), but then the laptop went away and I didn't want to maintain a package I couldn't really test ;) NetworkManager has changed a lot since then, so anyone who wants to package it at this point would probably be better off starting from scratch. [0] http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/dbus/#security Zack
