On Monday 08 September 2003 22:36, Alan Bort wrote: > Anyway, in RedHat the ifconfig is in /sbin/ifconfig
Ah!, yes how correct you are, my mistake. > If you want a certain user to have access to ifconfig, you should give the > right permissions and then add to the .bashrc or .bash_profile the line: > alias ifconfig="/sbin/ifconfig" and then log out and in again (so that the > RC file will be run again. You can also run another shell /bin/sh. But > logging out and back in is better. HuH!! 1) No not at all, there is no need to give a user permissions to use ifconfig as he HAS permission to use it as is, what a normall user cannot do with ifconfig is up or down interfaces, a normal user can only see the details of ifconfig output, but giving a normall user permission to use ifconfig in its entirity you WILL comprimise your system to hackers, in otherwords you open a closed door for them period. 2) A normall user can do the alias him/herself by using the following; alias ifconfig='/sbin/ifconfig' Thats it.. -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
