Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 04/26/2017 10:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:07:01AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > "ifconfig" has to be run as root.
> > ric@iam:~$ sudo ifconfig
> > [sudo] password for ric:
> > enp8s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>
> This is not correct, if you are just using it to view an interface rather
> than to change the interface.
>
> ifconfig lives in the /sbin directory, which is not in the default PATH
> that user accounts get when they login.  It *is* in the PATH that you
> get when you run su, or sudo.  That's why it works when you slap sudo
> in front of it.
>
> You could also simply run /sbin/ifconfig directly.  Or, you could change
> your PATH variable to include the /sbin directory.  Either of these will
> let you run ifconfig without root privileges.

And that makes me incorrect how?? For a new user, who doesn't want to 
dink with $PATH, su or sudo will run ifconfig. It doesn't run, out of 
the box, as USER, which was the OP's original issue. Ric
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