results of my try.

[Geoff Shang]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Actually, the suggestions don't require any more experimentation than what you did. But the command you did as a regular user really does have to be done as root.

You can run ifconfig as a user, you just can't use it to actually do 
network configuration and you will need to specify the path as sbin is not 
normally in a user's path.

This is what Karen did.

Geoff.