Re: Bug#286838: ITP: wakeonlan -- Sends 'magic packets' to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:51:35PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:38:34PM +0000, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > > The tool allows you to wake up a single machine, or a group of
> > > machines.
> > > .
> > > You need the MAC addresses of machines to construct the WOL
> > > packets.
> > > .
> > > Homepage: http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/
> >
> > Does this do anything that etherwake doesn't?
>
> It allows itself to be executed by non-root users - the short
> description has been updated to include this.
Is that by running setuid root? Couldn't etherwake do the same?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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