On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:42 -0700, David Allred wrote: > >> > >> If you know the IP address and you are on the same subnet, then > >> you can > >> ping it and then run the command `arp` > > > > Or, on the local machine, just ifconfig > > > Command not found > > -bash: ifconfig: command not found
When you are logged in as a non-root user, many system commands like ifconfig are not in the search path. I always try to remember to use full paths when posting commands to the list. Try this: /sbin/ifconfig /sbin and /usr/sbin are not in your path normally, unless you log in as root. I always like to get in the habit of typing the full path to these commands anyway, even when they are in my path. Especially because if you write a script to run by cron, you'll need to include the paths because cron doesn't inherent the root environment, so it doesn't have /sbin or /usr/sbin in the path either. Unfortunately I don't have any answer to your original question (about writing a script to do the authentication). I don't think this particular avenue (setting the mac address to something arbitrary) is really what you want. Mainly because if you set two machines to the same mac address, they both can't talk to the switch at the same time anymore. So I'd leave this whole thing be. It's pretty advanced stuff anyway. I'd try the ruby script that Erin posted. Ruby should be easily installable via the yast utility (you're running SuSE right?). Michael > > dave > > > > > -------------------- > > BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU- > > UUG. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
