On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Randy writes: >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to >> connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from >> user level security and install the firewall rules. > >> How do I do this? > >The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp >comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as >root no matter who ran pon and poff.
Alternatively, he could use the interface as a filter target instead of the IP address. Should be fine on stand-alone machine with a single external interface. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
