[aclug-L] Re: starting pppd by a normal user

[j m wagle <jmwagle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff:
thanks for the info... I got sudo downloaded, installed and working,
only....

I made my users ALL=(ALL), 

if you only wanted a user, 'gina' to be able to do (for example)
"pppd and killall pppd" commands, how would you phrase the 'sudoers'
command line?

thanks in advance,,
mike wagle

Jeff wrote:
> 
> In case it helps, I attached the 'ppp' script I use with 'sudo'.
> /usr/local/bin/ is in my $PATH, so I do:
> 
> $ sudo ppp start
> 
> and wait until I hear the beep/see the wall message.
> 
> When I want to pull it down,
> 
> $ sudo ppp stop
> 
> Included inline are /etc/ppp/ip-down.local and /etc/ppp/ip-up.local.
> They get called by ip-down and ip-up (in /etc/ppp) respectively.
> 
> ip-down.local:
> #!/bin/sh
> wall "ppp down"
> 
> ip-up.local:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xntpd start >/dev/null 2>&1 &;
> /usr/bin/wall "ppp up"
> 
> -jeff
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