On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 22:11 +0200, François Patte wrote:
I'd like to know if there is a way to allow non root user to use
"system-config-network". On a laptop it is quite boring to always
become root if you want to use lan interface, wifi interface or ppp
interface....
Don't know about with wireless, but there are various GUIs for letting
users bring some interfaces up and down, as well as command line tools.
In Gnome, you can edit the main menus, and find "network device control"
in the system tools section. There's also a modem lights panel applet
that lets you bring ppp up and down from the taskbar.
system-control-network is a GNOME gui that allows a user to bring a
network device up or down (if USRCTL=yes), but it does not allow
configuring. It is accessible from the Network Monitor applet in GNOME.
I believe it is the "netowrk device control" menu entry Tim mentions.
NetworkManager allows users to connect to any wired network that supplies
a DCHP address or any wireless network that the user can access that
supplies a DHCP address. I believe that dialups can be configured as
well, but I've never done it.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
