Internet only as root

[Jeff Vian]

see response below.

Paul Ryan wrote:

>>From paul at the-ryans.de Sun Feb 22 11:10:27 2004
>Hi I shortened this as much as possible trying to find the balance
>between ballast and having someone new to the thread knowing what is
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>>On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 15:32, Paul Ryan wrote:  
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>>>>   Hi I have a problem accessing the internet. I can only access it
>>>>as root. After numerous attempts to get my ADSL runing with the
>>>>Internet setup wizzard and the network device control, without any
>>>>luck.  The system would conect but it was like Mozilla, Gaim and Co.
>>>>didn't know that I was conected.  I finnaly had luck with
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>adsl-config,
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>>>>everything worked as root but only as root. When I boot to a normal
>>>>user there is no ppp0 conection listed in the network control (and
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>>>>I did enable other users) when I use /usr/sbin/adsl-start it seems
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>>>>conect no error messages but it is the same as with the internet
>>>>conection wizzard Mozilla and Co. don't think that I'm conected. 
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>>>>other note if I do any configuation with the network control I have
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>>>>reconfigure my ppp0 conection with adsl-config again otherwise it
>>>>won't conect to the internet again.
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>>Be careful about giving out incorrect information.
>>'adsl-config' is needed once to initialize and save the adsl settings.
>> After that you only use 'ifup ppp0' and 'ifdown ppp0'  to 
>>connect/disconnect.
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>True if I log on as root and start a internet connection ,then log on as
>a different user I can then use the connection
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So everything works for the regular user after starting the connection 
as root??
This is normal, and by default only root is allowed to change interface 
status.

I see that ppp0 uses eth1, and the routing seems correct as does the DNS 
so unless your desire is to make it so any user can change the status of 
the interface, I see no problems.

There are many ways to make it so the regular user can start/stop the 
adsl connection.
     A script to start it with root privledges comes to mind quickly.
To start it at boot time you can use one of the rc. scripts (such as 
rc.local) or the inittab as simple points to control it.  You also can 
set it up as a service if you wish.