On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 09:23:39PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [cut]
> So I added the following lines below it: > > ============================================================ > TMPFILE='/tmp/setnet.tmp' > echo "diatop: TMPFILE IS *$TMPFILE*." > ============================================================ > > After the following strongarm, the program ran nicely. So, at least > with my shell (dash, I believe), the following line produced an empty > string: Hi Steve, thanks for your encouragement. bash is currently a requirement, since I am using a few non-posix little things. So if you want to test it and report bugs, please use it under bash atm since a few things will not work at all with dash. I hope I will be able to port it to posix-sh soon. [cut] > > Do you think there will come a time when this can be run without root > rights? Perhaps by having a special group with write rights to > wpa_supplicant.conf? > That should be relatively easy, and might be implemented already in the next (forthcoming) version, together with a few minor improvements. The problem is that having the right to run wpa_cli is not enough to restart wpa_supplicant. However, that might not be necessary, since we can force wpa_supplicant to re-read its conf file. Anyway, the problem of restarting dhclients as a normal user remains. Let's face it: network configuration is an admin task, and should be performed by root, IMHO :) I would like people (and I) to test it for a while before going for a major code clean-up, which is necessary anyway. I would like to modularise the script to make it easy to "extend" it with new functionalities, e.g., other authentication methods, but this will be done only after I have made the current script working properly for the minimal live. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
