On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@abilitiessoft.org> wrote: > I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros > ordinary users can use it. You haven't been listening to what others have been telling you. ifconfig resides in sbin, which is in root's but not the ordinary user's path. So either use '/sbin/ifconfig' or 'sudo ifconfig' as an ordinary user, or su to root and run ifconfig. Patrick