man pppoe-wrapper(1) − SUID wrapper for starting and stopping PPPoE connections.

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:

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 AT roaringpenguin DOT com>.

The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/.

SEE ALSO

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