Linux / dialup internet

wombo · 1st October 2002, 10:57 PM

does anybody know of a way to connect and disconnect from the internet using a browser interface

at the moment i can dialup but have to telnet in
i also have apache working

ToranaGuy · 1st October 2002, 11:06 PM

What about the PPP package's for the GUI?? Like i think it's Kppp for KDE?? You might be able to setup your boxen to auto load the PPP package when the browser start's.....

Cheers

ToranaGuy

Aiken · 2nd October 2002, 9:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wombo
does anybody know of a way to connect and disconnect from the internet using a browser interface

at the moment i can dialup but have to telnet in
i also have apache working

I wrote a couple of cgi scripts call connect and disconnect.

connect.cgi

#!/bin/bash
echo Content-type: text/html
echo
echo
ifup ppp0
echo Connected

disconnect.cgi
echo Content-type: text/html
echo
echo
ifdown ppp0
echo Disconnected

This can be expand on so that connection time are selected. My connect cgi does a lot more than the above example. You want to connect 2 hours, click on the link that says 2 hours. Have connect.cgi call another script that goes into the background and goes to sleep for 2 hours. When it wakes up call ifdown ppp0.

wombo · 2nd October 2002, 9:25 PM

thanks so much aiken that was exactly what i was lookin for

wombo · 5th October 2002, 4:15 PM

how are you calling that CGI script through the website Aiken?

Aiken · 5th October 2002, 4:49 PM

This is the raw html from the page I use to connect and disconnect from the internet.

<html>
<head>
<title>Internet conenction page</title>
</head>
<body>

<center><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?900">15 minutes</a>
  
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?1800">half hour</a>
  
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?3600">one hour</a>
  
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?7200">two hours</a>
  
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?14400">four hours</a>
  
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?32400">nine hours</a>
  
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?172800">couple of days</a>

<hr>
<center>
<a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/disconnect">Disconnect</a></center>

</body>
</html>

wombo · 5th October 2002, 5:08 PM

i pu this line in my page
<a href="http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/connect">connect</a>

but it says this

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/connect.cgi on
this server.

ive done chmod 755 connect.cgi

=BF= · 5th October 2002, 6:07 PM

I doubt nobody, who runs apache, would have permissions to run ifup. You might have to suid it.

Aiken · 6th October 2002, 8:26 AM

Initially I had to set the suid flag on the 2 cgi scripts. Not anymore.

The permission on both connect.cgi and disconnect.cgi are 755. Suid is not set.
I had a look at ifup and ifdown, suid is not set. Found pppd does have it set.
Both owner.group for the cgi scripts are set to root.root.

I think pppd need suid if a normal user is to able to bring up a pppd link.

Quote:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/connect.cgi on this server.

I get can get this error if I clear the execute flag on the cgi.

wombo · 6th October 2002, 11:57 AM

sorry im a relative newbie with *nix systems and ive got no idea what suid is

Quadbox · 6th October 2002, 1:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wombo
sorry im a relative newbie with *nix systems and ive got no idea what suid is

The suid bit is another permissions setting, that makes it so that no matter who executes the program, it will behave as if it was executed by root. You can make a file suid by doing "#chmod +s <filename>"

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5th October 2002, 4:49 PM	#6
Aiken Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 344	This is the raw html from the page I use to connect and disconnect from the internet. <html> <head> <title>Internet conenction page</title> </head> <body> <center><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?900">15 minutes</a> <br>  <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?1800">half hour</a> <br>  <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?3600">one hour</a> <br>  <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?7200">two hours</a> <br>  <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?14400">four hours</a> <br>  <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?32400">nine hours</a> <br>  <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/connect?172800">couple of days</a> <hr> <center> <p><a href="http://barney.bedrock/cgi-bin/disconnect">Disconnect</a></center> </body> </html>

5th October 2002, 5:08 PM	#7
wombo Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 1,538	i pu this line in my page <a href="http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/connect">connect</a> but it says this Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/connect.cgi on this server. ive done chmod 755 connect.cgi __________________ My Camera Gear

5th October 2002, 6:07 PM	#8
=BF= Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: BrisVegas Posts: 1,217	I doubt nobody, who runs apache, would have permissions to run ifup. You might have to suid it.

6th October 2002, 11:57 AM	#10
wombo Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 1,538	sorry im a relative newbie with *nix systems and ive got no idea what suid is __________________ My Camera Gear