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Re: I'm dissapointed in 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Roberts)
Wed Nov 18 17:04:27 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:03:03 -0700
From: Doug Roberts <roberts@tsasa.lanl.gov>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <199811182155.QAA14498@nautilus.math.clemson.edu> (message from
Matthew Saltzman on Wed, 18 Nov 1998 16:55:11 -0500 (EST))
Reply-to: roberts@tsasa.lanl.gov
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Matthew> The way RedHat allows ordinary users to bring
Matthew> network interfaces up and down is by a wrapper program that sets the
Matthew> uid. My /dev/cua* and /dev/ttyS* devices are only writable by root,
Matthew> but the RedHat interface management scripts "ifup ppp0" and "ifdown
Matthew> ppp0" work just fine for my ordinary userid.
Thanks for the tip, Matthew.
Matthew> You do need to get into the "RedHat spirit" of network management. If
Matthew> you manage the interfaces entirely via Linuxconf or the control panel
Matthew> or the scripts in /etc/sysconfig, then everything ought to work as
Matthew> advertised. If you do *all* your network management by hand, things
Matthew> will behave as you are used to. If you try to mix RedHat management
Matthew> with the regular PPP stuff, you are likely to have problems.
So I discovered.
--Doug
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