Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:07:52 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp server side startup commands Message-ID: <4.1.19990211210644.03b3da20@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902112051570.317-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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At 08:58 PM 2/11/99 , Chuck Robey wrote: >I was wondering if someone can make suggestion here, regarding getting >startup actions run, ON THE PPP SERVER. > >I run user-ppp, where the login is done via chap. The user never has to >enter any password; the getty process recognizes the incoming frame as >a ppp hdlc frame, and starts up a ppp process just fine. The login >works perfectly. > >The problem comes in when, for instance, the ppp user has a second box >that needs to be introduced into the routing. Manually, to do this, on >the server (as root) an arp -s command, and a route add command, has to >be run, then the second box (this is with static ip) works perfectly. >I've tried doing this with either the !bg or sh commands in ppp.linkup, >but those commands seem to be run with the user's permission level, and >the arp and route commands must be run as root. > >There are like commands (arp and route commands) that also have to be >run on ppp takedown, to eliminate the routes. Does anyone know how to >get this automated, so that it happens automatically on ppp startup and >takedown? > >Note that I said that !bg and sh aren't doing it, I think that their >permission levels are wrong. > Use Sudo to exec the bg commands. i.e. sudo -u root /sbin/route add ... Course this requires you to let someone run commands as root.. perhaps you could hack the source to add a password implementation. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP DSS/1024 Public Key ID: 0x409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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