system-config-network as non-root

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Don't know about with wireless, but there are various GUIs for letting
>> users bring some interfaces up and down, as well as command line tools.
>> In Gnome, you can edit the main menus, and find "network device control"
>> in the system tools section.  There's also a modem lights panel applet
>> that lets you bring ppp up and down from the taskbar.

François Patte:
> I think that I wasn't clear enough, all what has been suggested is to
> use some applet or some command line to bring up an interface already
> configured by root.

If you'd tried what's been suggested, you'd discover that you don't need
to be a root user to bring interfaces up and down, whether by a command
or a GUI tool, when those interfaces have been already configured to let
users bring them up and down.

Bring an interface up and down is a different issue than configuring
them.


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