On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 16:05 +0100, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Hi all !
Basic utilities such as "ifconfig" do not work under user account, but only under root.
This problem doesn't happens in other distros. This is because normal user has no /sbin on it's $PATH.
I think we should add export PATH=/sbin;$PATH To skeleton user account to fix this.
I disagree with your statement that /sbin is only available to "root". It can be obtained by a user with "> /sbin/ifconfig" by simply adding
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