Re: finding IP address of ethernet card

[Marcin Kurc <siemce@linux.indtech.edu>]

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        45296 Nov 18 07:12 /sbin/ifconfig

so I don't see a problem to execute it as user:

[siemce@helios:~]$ id
uid=1000(siemce) gid=1000(siemce) groups=1000(siemce)
[siemce@helios:~]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:20:77:38:29
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5873 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:38 Base address:0xd400


On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:12:01PM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote: 
> How would a user find out the IP address assigned to
> eth0.  This is a normal user, not a sys-op, so he
> doesn't have access to ifconfig.
> 
> Thanks,
>         Bryan
> 
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Marcin Kurc
Indiana Institute of Technology
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