On Fri Oct 11 2002 at 09:54, Matt Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:23:38AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > You do not have to be root if you change ifup and ifdown to be SUID root.
> 
> Bah, that's no good.  Just enable user control of the device
> through redhat-config-network.  If you like to edit your config by
> hand, add:
> 
> USERCTL=yes
> 
> to the ifcfg-* file for the interface.
> 
> Matt

There are a great many very useful tweaks that can be done to the
/etc/sysconfig/ files and the documentation for this isn't so
obvious.

Suggestion: put a copy of sysconfig.txt (from /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/)
into /etc/sysconfig/, or a README that points to this file.

Cheers
Tony




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