I have a simple system I wrote in perl/tk that is one step short of this, that is, if you want users to have to request a connection each time instead of having it dial up transparently as in diald.
The system consists of: rdiald - perlscript that runs as a daemon and manages pppd; and rdial - perl/tk script to be run on clients. Requirements: perl and the Tk package. Basically rdiald runs as a user who has permissions to dial up and keeps track of the status of the dialup line; when a user starts rdial, it contacts the host running rdiald and requests a lock. If everything works okay, rdiald assigns a lock and dials up the system. The client runs fine on windows hosts as well as *nix. There are no *obvious* security holes, but it's not exactly fort knox - it's designed for a home network (like mine) in which you're not really worried about one host connecting and deleting somebody else's lock. I do make it listen only on 192.168.0.*, so there's no concern of opening a hole from the outside when dialled up. I'll throw the two scripts on http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin/tips/src soon; feel free to use it but no guarantees. Cheers, Andy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:38:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have just setup a VERY small ethernet network with one user box and one > > server. User and server can see each other, ping, etc and user can access > > Internet provided the server is already logged on to my ISP. What is the > > best way to enable the user to access the server's modem to dial out and > > connect to the ISP? I was thinking of trying a shell script to rlogin and > > pon, but is there a better way? > > > > Thanks! Just starting to learn a bit about networking (obviously). > > For an application such as this, diald, if you don't mind the modem > being used _whenever_ network access is being requested. I have a 2nd > dedicated phoneline and use a demand-dialed persistent PPP connection -- > it's always live, and reconnects when it goes down. DSL will happen > eventually. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org >
