At Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:12:10 +0000 , Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other >processes take care of themselves. [...] >the details are >in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ There are similar files for isdn which I use, and you are of course correct. I should have been more clear - I don't really want to have these things done automatically every time a user connects, partly because I want to do things when I want them to and not when circumstances dictate a connection occurs, and partly because it isn't what I would call 'clean' - for me the ip-up & down stuff is for setting up (& bringing down) what is necessary for the connection to operate, so the starting of a firewall is appropriate, because nobody should go onto the 'net without one IMO, but the collection of news (for example) is not. I guess my options are to either frig about with user & group ownership which is somewhat involved and hardly maintenance hassle free, or to have some scripts available to end users which can do the work necessary (which scripts would need to somehow obtain the correct user/permissions to do such work, so I suppose I could have phrased the question as "How would the scripts best get that permission?"). Is there a better way? -- Gary Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
