Setting ifconfig
Setting ifconfig
- Subject: Setting ifconfig
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:32:38 -0500
On 11/23/2002 18:32, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Now can anyone tell me to have this set at login? Which file should
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>> it be written to?
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> well, probably the safest way would be to create a generic key in your
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> keychain with your admin password in it, then use keychain scripting to pull
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> that password out and make it part of a 'do shell script' command. This way,
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> you aren't embedding passwords in scripts.
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But no password would be required in a boot script. It's only when I
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change it during a session that I need to be superuser.
Ah...but you didn't ask for that, you said at login, which is different than
a boot script. For that, you would have to create a Startupitem, or modify
an existing Startup item.
john
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