"pon dsl-provider" as a regular user?

[Daniel Pittman]

Marcus <lists at wordit.com> writes:

> Friday, July 7, 2006, 1:21:51 PM, you wrote:
> Daniel> Specifically, my suggestion would be to write a brief, secure, shell
> Daniel> script that does the poff and pon or whatever.  Make sure it resets the
> Daniel> PATH, etc, to avoid security risks.
>
> Could anybody provide an example of a secure script?
>
> (I'm guessing "sudo pon dsl-provider" is not sufficient.)

Actually, if you don't mind her being able to connect and disconnect
*any* PPP session[1] just list 'pon' and 'poff' as commands in sudoers.

Alternately, yes, 'pon dsl-provider' as a command should be fine.  
I didn't think through the risk model enough, I think, last night.

  Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Since most people, these days, don't have more than one.

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