Solomon Peachy wrote:
>'sudo' asks for the user password, not the root
password.
>
>You can configure sudo to run with no password either,
and you can also
>lock down sudo so that it only allows that user to run
that one command.
>
>But back to your original question -- technially, all
network configuration
>requires the ADMIN capability, usually only available to
root. Your distro
>network scripts use some setuid trickery to work around
this so mere users
>can up/down network interfaces, but not configure them
directly.
>
> - Solomon.
>
Well, suddenly, some things actually make sense. I will see
what I can
make of sudo. Thank you.
-- D-cat
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