.\" $Id: pppoe-wrapper.1,v 1.3 2005/08/09 02:49:14 dfs Exp $ .\" LIC: GPL.TH PPPOE-WRAPPER 1 "26 February 2001".UC 4.SH NAMEpppoe-wrapper \- SUID wrapper for starting and stopping PPPoE connections..SH SYNOPSIS.B pppoe-wrapper start linkname.P.B pppoe-wrapper stop linkname.P.B pppoe-wrapper status linkname.SH DESCRIPTION\fBpppoe-wrapper\fR is a small SUID program which allows non-root usersto start and stop PPPoE links.  It operates as follows:.TP.B oFirst, \fIlinkname\fR is sanity-checked.  Too-long names and names containingillegal characters are rejected..TP.B oSecond, \fBpppoe-wrapper\fR opens the file \fB/etc/ppp/rp-pppoe-gui/\fR\fIlinkname\fR for reading.  If that file does not contain the line:.nf		NONROOT=OK.fithen \fBpppoe-wrapper\fR fails..TP.B oOtherwise, \fBpppoe-wrapper\fR runs \fBpppoe-start\fR, \fBpppoe-stop\fR or\fBpppoe-status\fR with the above filename as its single argument..SH AUTHOR\fBpppoe-wrapper\fR was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>.The \fBpppoe\fR home page is \fIhttp://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/\fR..SH SEE ALSOpppoe-start(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppoe-status(8), tkpppoe(1)