On Tuesday 06 November 2007 15:51, Sunny wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 5:46 PM, Ben Kevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am sure this has been discussed before, but will openSUSE ever > > allow the user to run ifconfig? or allow it to be run via sudo > > ifconfig? > > Nothing stops you to do this, just /sbin is not in the default path, > > so you need to run: > > /sbin/ifconfig > > I really do not understand why /sbin and /usr/sbin are not in the > default user path, as they are in most of other distros though. Many > of the programs there are useful, and most important, runable as > user, including route. Also, it kind of complicates the use of sudo > as the OP said.
It would seem that many consider these programs the equivalent of loaded guns whose bullets ineluctably seek the critical regions of the user's system and, furthermore, that non-root users are universally idiotic. Thus, to protect idiots from themselves, all users must enter the root password that they themselves chose when installing the system. This places the person who can accomplish this task in the upper one quarter of human intelligence. Those that can figure out how to use an absolute path name or change their PATH variable are clearly among the genius and are thus on their own. > -- > Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
