Re: Allowing unprivileged users to use some router functions

[Breen Ouellette <the.man@breeno.net>]

There are many ways to do this, but I will dare to say they are beyond 
the scope of this mailing list.  Read Essential System Administration by 
AEleen Frisch and UNIX System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, 
Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein.  You should be able to come 
up with something once you've read those.

If you are looking for a quick front end of some sort which you can pop 
into place, I'd say that you probably made a mistake in going with 
OpenBSD.  AFAIK, there is no such front end.  If you want to make one, 
then OpenBSD provides you with many tools to get the job done.

Breeno

Robert Golovniov wrote:

>Hello,
>
>  For  a  while, I have been a happy user of IPcop firewall. Recently,
>  however,  I  decided to try a different approach and to run OpenBSD
>  as a firewall/router instead.
>
>  Now, with IPcop and its easy-to-use Web-interface, it was quite easy
>  to  teach  a  computer novice how to bring the PPP connection up and
>  down  and also to shut down the firewall machine altogether, when no
>  Internet  connection  was  needed.  How can I do the same thing with
>  OpenBSD?  How  can I make it really simple for such computer newbies
>  to  log  into  the  router machine, bring up the ppp connection, and
>  then to switch it off and shut down the machine?
>
>  Thank you very much in advance for any help.