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Hi Arch Team,
I am a new Arch-Chakra user(but not new to linux) and I want to start and stop my adsl without using sudo(i.e as a regular non-root user). Currently I can run pon & poff via sudo but ofcourse it will ask for passwd and I want a password-less way to run it without compromising security. This is required inorder to start/stop my adsl Internet connection non-interactively say via cron or any other program where there is no user input possible.
Such is the default configuration/setup in Kubuntu(my last distro) but I guess Arch is a root-allowed distro contrary to *Ubuntu. So does any one know how to accomplish this in Chakra or point me to a working HOWTO. I am running pppd as per http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PPP … _with_pppd
Thanks.
Last edited by chakra-user (2010-03-11 09:35:50)
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Answering my own query, below is the fix to help somebody who is also looking for solution to the same problem.
#sudo visudo
in the editor, go to last line and add
<ur username/%group> ALL=(ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pon, /usr/bin/poff
Thats it. now u can run sudo pon/poff without entering password.
Though I wud ideally like to do away with mentioning even 'sudo' but this is enuf for me at this moment. Anyone has proper steps to do that also, then let me know.
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Ahh thanks for the link. Since there was no directing visible way to do it thought let me write abt it.
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