NetworkManager or Wifi-Radar?

Greg Folkert greg at gregfolkert.net
Fri Jun 13 15:49:52 CEST 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 14:31 +0200, Jean-Christophe wrote:
> I found this thread and I could suggest another soft: wpa_gui, which is 
> the most highly capable I found.
> I made a hotkey launching 'sudo wpa_gui' (it must be launched as root) 
> and added 'ALL     ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/wpa_gui' to sudoers with visudo.

I know many people hate SUID programs... but rather than make a grievous
SUDOERS ENTRY like that...

Why not make the program SUID and owned by root? Or at least GUID and
proper groups memberships for the running user.
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