Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:05 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:My laptop has a root user and my normal "bob" user. I currently need to use any "network configuration" command via sudo.This includes the setup of my wifi card (AP association, xsupplicant and dhcp for my ath0).Is there some better way ?How is sudo "bad", or "not good"?
Ron, I trust sudo more than my bank :)I was just wondering if there was some accepted means of assigning the various network command to a group and making the "bob" user belongigng to that.
I am so used to administering machines that I quite often type ifconfig as bob and am annoyed by not having /sbin on it's path and not being authorizied to execute that. I then follow with sudo which fixes things, but it would be more natural if bob could use ifconfig, iwconfing, ifup, ifdown etc etc.
Hope I managed to explain myself. Thanks, Bob