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pppoe-wrapper - SUID wrapper for starting and stopping PPPoE connecā
tions.
SYNOPSIS
pppoe-wrapper start linkname
pppoe-wrapper stop linkname
pppoe-wrapper status linkname
DESCRIPTION
pppoe-wrapper is a small SUID program which allows non-root users to
start and stop PPPoE links. It operates as follows:
o First, linkname is sanity-checked. Too-long names and names
containing illegal characters are rejected.
o Second, pppoe-wrapper opens the file /etc/ppp/rp-pppoe-
gui/linkname for reading. If that file does not contain the
line:
NONROOT=OK
then pppoe-wrapper fails.
o Otherwise, pppoe-wrapper runs pppoe-start, pppoe-stop or pppoe-
status with the above filename as its single argument.
AUTHOR
pppoe-wrapper was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>.
The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/.
SEE ALSOpppoe-start(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppoe-status(8), tkpppoe(1)4th Berkeley Distribution 26 February 2001PPPOE-WRAPPER(1)