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sunv

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Registered: 2008-02-25

Posts: 20

how to make netcfg2 run with regular user permissions

when i want to run netcfg2 to connect to my wireless i always have to be superuser then run netfg2.  is there anyway to let the regular user run netcfg2?

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: how to make netcfg2 run with regular user permissions

sudo is your friend. You can also set it to only work with certain commands. Instead of having

USER_NAME   ALL=(ALL) ALL

You can have

USER_NAME   ALL=/usr/bin/netcfg2./usr/bin/netcfg-menu,[any other commands you want to add]