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Name

pppoe-wrapper - SUID wrapper for starting and stopping PPPoE connections.

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:

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First, linkname is sanity-checked. Too-long names and names containing illegal characters are rejected.

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Second, pppoe-wrapper opens the file /etc/ppp/rp-pppoe-gui/conf.linkname for reading. If that file does not contain the line: 
        NONROOT=OK
then pppoe-wrapper fails.

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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 Also

pppoe-start(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppoe-status(8), tkpppoe(1)

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