Re: Allowing unprivileged users to use some router functions

["Angus Scott-Fleming" <angusw@geoapps.com>]

On 28 Feb 2004 at 18:19, 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.

Have you looked at SOFI? http://sofi-firewall.sourceforge.net/