Re: Allowing unprivileged users to use some router functions

[Steve <steve@szmidt.org>]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:19 am, 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.

There are a few good options here, but why shut it down at all?
Power consumption is low and the hardware will be just as happy not 
getting powered on all the time. (The little wear there is happens 
usually on power on cycles.)

Steve
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