[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] ifup eth0

[From: Jonathan Matthews-Levine]

On 06/07/06, abhijit.gupta at wipro.com <abhijit.gupta at wipro.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am developing a control panel applet and want to configure IP address from the applet using
> ifup eth0 command. But I am not able to execute this command as it needs root permission to execute
> the command.
>     I am running the command from applet using system command.
>
> system("ifup eth0").  I also tried to execute following script from control panel applet
>
> sudo gainroot
> ifup eth0
>
> but it did not work, it changes to root shell but ifup runs in old shell.
>   Any idea, how to get avoid this permission problem ?

How about "sudo ifup eth0"?
I'm not sure what you'll need to add to /etc/sudoers to enable this, however ...

Jonathan

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