Turn off Internet connection without root password

arosiqueh · 07-02-2005, 10:54 AM

I would like to be able to turn off (and on) Internet connection without having to type root password.

Let me explain. I have a network with some computer and one of them work as a proxy-cache (server). I would like put on the server Desktop a button to turn off (and on) Internet connection. But I don't want to say root password to anyone who use the server in order to do this.

Any idea?

A good idea should be to change the server IP but I can not execute

Code:

networking restart

without root password.

Any better idea?

Thank you.

synaptical · 07-02-2005, 11:10 AM

use sudo? you'd have to enter user pw, but not root at least.

arosiqueh · 07-02-2005, 11:59 AM

I've tried sudo with "networking restart" but it doesn't work because it need to access some files with root access.