Re: how to find out ethernet device name
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:31:14AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2018-04-17, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> > sudo ip link;
>
> Do you need sudo for that (would I get something else here if I was
> root)?
No, you don't. Don is probably just used to the years of needing sudo
or an explicit path to ifconfig. The ip command is in a place where
users can simply run it without needing either sudo or a prefixed path.
Looks like this has been the case since iproute2 was first added in
squeeze.
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