Did you ever get an answer to this question? It would be interesting for me
as well. I do all my network stuff with a script a friend and I wrote called
NetMonkey. It takes care of up/down-ing both wired and wireless networks on
Gentoo. I switch between so many networks with my laptop it became
necessary. I have to run that script with sudo and would like to run it as
my regular user...anyway...the long and short of it was did you get a good
answer? ;)

Thanks,

Alex

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Subject: user-controllable eth0 in gentoo?

I haven't gotten any good replies in the gentoo forums on this one, so I am
turning to the gentoo-guru's here again.

How do I give a non-root user priviledges to bring up and down eth0?  Setuid
and sudo are not what I'm looking for.  I actually want to lower the
priviledge level required to control eth0.  Red Hat does this with the
USERCTL=yes option in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
Unfortunately, I have no idea how they pull that off.

Ideas?

Thanks,
...Kevin

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