Re: Stupid question
I have an ethernet connection at school. At boot time root does the
"ifup eth0" to DHCP boot the card. Services such as sendmail, apache, ftpd,
etc. run as they should and work fine. I believe each service has a
user/group associated with it that has limited permissions. As long
as the users/groups are allowed to use the network interface it
shouldn't matter which user actually created that interface. I recall
an option when configuring the network to allow users other than root
to bring up/down the interface. I chose 'no' so that no one else
could boot me off the network. As a result I had to su to root one
time when the card couldn't DHCP boot (some external problems) to
bring the interface back up when the network was fixed.
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote:
> Okay, stupid question time.
>
> What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the
> mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but
> rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want to
> connect as root, but some things (e.g. collecting mail or news) might
> be better done as root or might /need/ to be done as root, or at
> least some specific user with the right permissions which might be
> different for the different tasks. What's the best thing to do? I've
> never really seen a decent discussion about this, since I started
> fiddling about with Linux (on and off, about 2 years).
>
>
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