[plug] Restarting ppp from a 'doze box

[Andrew Barbara]

There is a command in the Putty suite, i think its plink.exe, have a look 
at the download page 
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

This allows you to execute commands on a linux box from a windows pc, i 
used this for a while before moving to Cable.  Maybe just use wvdial and 
get plink to run wvdial from the win box, should work fine... it did for 
me!

Andrew

On 6 Feb 2003, Sacha Schlegel wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 19:55, Anthony Wilson wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > I've got a Windoze box set up behind my firewall for my girlfriend to use, 
> > and I want to allow her to start / restart / stop the ppp connection on the 
> > firewall box from her machine.
> > 
> > Anyone got some suggestions as to how I can go about this? (It needs to be a 
> > point, click, bash PC with rock kind of solution ;)
> > 
> 
> Hi I got the following solution:
> 
> Main-Webpage (index.php) on the server with php which looks like:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> <h2>Internet Connection</h2>
> <form method="post" action="index.php">
> <?
> if($shutdown == "shutdown"){
>   exec("sudo /usr/bin/poff");
> }
> elseif ($connect == "connect"){
>   exec("/usr/bin/pon myISP");
>   echo "Connecting ....... please wait";
> }
> 
> sleep(1);
> 
> echo "Connection to Internet is :";
> 
> $prog = "pppd";
> $id = exec("pidof $prog");
> 
> if($id != ""){
>   echo " up (connected). ";
>   echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"shutdown\" value=\"shutdown\">";
> }
> else{
>   echo " down (not connectd). ";
>   echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"connect\" value=\"connect\"";
> }
> 
>   echo "<br><br><input type=\"submit\" name=\"refresh\"
> value=\"Refresh\"";
> 
> ?>
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now you have to make sure the the webserver can call the program pon. 
> I use sudo (some say its not very secure but i did not care).
> 
> So I did setup sudo. I edited (with the visudo command) the file
> /etc/sudoers this way:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # sudoers file.
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
> #
> # Host alias specification
> 
> Host_Alias      OFFICE = 192.168.0.21
> 
> # User alias specification
> 
> User_Alias      WEBSERVER = nobody
> 
> # Cmnd alias specification
> 
> Cmnd_Alias      DIALIN = /usr/bin/pon '"myISP"'
> Cmnd_Alias      OFFLINE = /usr/bin/poff
> 
> # User privilege specification
> 
> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
> WEBSERVER       OFFICE= NOPASSWD: DIALIN, OFFLINE
> 
> Defaults        mailto=root at 192.168.0.21
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> So anybody can connect and disconnect via this web interface. Even I
> connect this way now. It does not handle if your ISP is busy, then it
> says connected :( ah nevermind.
> 
> Sacha
> 
> 
> > cheers,
> > Anthony
> 

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