On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:07:13AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: | Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am | setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I | will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their | own machine...
Sounds good. | The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to | connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from | user level security and install the firewall rules. | | How do I do this? No problem -- just install the ipmasq package. This is how I have my system setup. I provided a login for my family to use and they just run 'pon' (or the scrIpt i made call dial-modem.sh that doesn't terminate until the ppp0 interface exists). Regular users can still run /sbin/ifconfig, it just isn't in their path. -D
