Modem light's won't show traffic

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:47:51PM -0300, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to know how to setup the modemlights applet and/or ifup|ifdown 
> scripts so an _ordinary_ user (i.e. not root) can have the traffic shown 
> in the applet.
> 
> If I login as root, it works perfect.
> If I login as any other user, I can make the connection without 
> problems, but the "light" of the applet reminds yellow (as if it where 
> still connecting), and no traffic is shown.
> 
> I suppose it has to do with some permission, but I'd rather ask before 
> chmoding something wrong... I don't want to loose the security of my 
> dial-up connection.
> 
> Besides, I suppose it's a bug. If I setup the network interface so any 
> user can start up it (as it is), then the expected behavior of the 
> applet would be that any user can see the connection status and the traffic.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any input...
> 
> -- 
> Mariano
What I would do is make ifup and ifdown SUID root. That works for me.
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