Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 22 20:58:56 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:50 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:46 +0200, Pedro Jose wrote:
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > I send this question because in others computers with Fedora 8
> > > installed, when I login as root with su, ifconfig is available, but in
> > > my computer no. I'll try with su-, but my question is why  it works in
> > > other computers and not in mine with su.
> > > 
> > It should not work on any computer. As was explained in the previous
> > post su makes you root with the users environment that does not
> > have /sbin or /usr/sbin in its path.
> 
> Maybe not by default, but I usually modify /etc/bashrc to include /sbin
> and /usr/sbin in the PATH for root. /etc/profile actually does this
> already but of ocurse that's only for login shells. I don't really see
> the point of not doing it for "normal" su usage.
> 
> poc
> 
I hope yo mean you put /sbin and /usr/sbin in the path for users. These
are already in the default path for root.

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