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sdellysse

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Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 33

Set netcfg to be an SUID executable?

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I know the general mantra that suid'd executables are a bad thing, but I would like a normal user to be able to manage wifi.

A better idea would be to have a netcfg group, but I'm not sure how to do so.

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Set netcfg to be an SUID executable?

chgrp network /usr/bin/netcfg2
chmod 4750 /usr/bin/netcfg2

Peasantoid

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Registered: 2009-04-26

Posts: 928

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Re: Set netcfg to be an SUID executable?

Or you could use sudo NOPASSWD on a certain group...

Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: Set netcfg to be an SUID executable?

# sudoers file.
#
Cmnd_Alias NETMGR = /usr/bin/netcfg,/usr/bin/other/network/stuff

...
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
...

%network ALL=NOPASSWD: NETMGR

sdellysse

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Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 33

Re: Set netcfg to be an SUID executable?

# sudoers file.
#
Cmnd_Alias NETMGR = /usr/bin/netcfg,/usr/bin/other/network/stuff

...
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
...

%network ALL=NOPASSWD: NETMGR

Perfect. Thanks.