[lwlan-user] User mode configuration?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:59:32PM -0500, Alfred Scamman wrote:
> Without compromising my security? I'd have to give her my root password
> or hard code it in the script. The interface is supposed to be
> configurable in user mode, as it does in kinternet. I want to be able to
> do that with a script in userspace; I shouldn't have to su anything.

'sudo' asks for the user password, not the root password.

You can configure sudo to run with no password either, and you can also 
lock down sudo so that it only allows that user to run that one command.

But back to your original question -- technially, all network 
configuration requires the ADMIN capability, usually only available to 
root.  Your distro network scripts use some setuid trickery to work 
around this so mere users can up/down network interfaces, but not 
configure them directly.

 - Solomon.
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