Re: Automatic proxy configuration in dispatcher.d

[José Moyano <josehmoyano gmail com>]

Hi José Queiroz (tocayo ;)

Do you think that su $user -c will work instead of sudo?

2011/9/21 José Queiroz <zekkerj gmail com>:
> Hello Jose Moyano,
>
> "sudo" only works if run from a valid terminal. This may be the problem with
> your script.
>
> 2011/9/21 José Moyano <josehmoyano gmail com>
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I write the following script to make network manager dispatcher to
>> change the proxy automagically based on site IP.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> IF=$1
>> STATUS=$2
>>
>> echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
>> >> \
>>    /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>> date >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>> echo "Configuring proxy..." >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>> NETMASK=<somemask>
>>
>> if [ -n "`/sbin/ip addr show to $NETMASK`" ]; then
>>    echo "Address with proxy detected..." >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>    PROXY_HOST="proxy.something.ar"
>>    PROXY_PORT="8080"
>>
>>    for user in "jose"
>>    do
>>        echo "Setting proxy for user $user" >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf --type string \
>>            --set /system/http_proxy/host $PROXY_HOST >> \
>>            /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf --type int \
>>            --set /system/http_proxy/port $PROXY_PORT >> \
>>            /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf --type bool \
>>            --set /system/http_proxy/use_same_proxy true >> \
>>            /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf --type bool \
>>            --set /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy true >> \
>>            /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf --type string \
>>            --set /system/proxy/mode manual >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>    done
>> else
>>    echo "The address has no proxy known" >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>>    # Clear proxy configuration for all users
>>    for user in "jose"
>>    do
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf \
>>            --unset /system/http_proxy/host
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf \
>>            --unset /system/http_proxy/port
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf \
>>            --unset /system/http_proxy/use_same_proxy
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf \
>>            --unset /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy
>>
>>        /usr/bin/sudo -u $user /usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
>>            --config-source=xml::/home/$user/.gconf \
>>            --unset /system/proxy/mode
>>    done
>> fi
>>
>> echo "Proxy configuration done" >> /var/log/autoproxy.log
>>
>> Funny thing, the script works if executed manually as root. When the
>> script is executed by network manager dispatcher, the calls to
>> gconftool-2 do nothing. The script is executed because all the log
>> printing can be seen in the /var/log/autoproxy.log file. I tried
>> adding other commands to the script, printing whoami (replies "root")
>> and everything seems to be fine. However, gconftool-2 has no effect in
>> the gnome configuration.
>> Does anyone know what can be the problem?
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> José.
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