On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:51:50PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote......
> I'm looking for the best policies / practices to start wireless
> networking. Briefly I use wireless in following locations:
>
> -home: wpa via wpa_supplicant
>
> -public (bars..etc..): no wep/wpa
>
> Both works fine. Currently I start a console logged with user root
> to call ifup with related params. Should I used root to call ifup
> ?
I would not log in as root to start ifup. Instead use sudo.
apt-cache show sudo >>> Sudo is a program designed to allow a
sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root
activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as
possible but still allow people to get their work done.
Kevin
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