What to do when a command isn't found?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:53:28PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
> I tried to execute
>    ifconfig eth0 down
> on my system as non-root, and got permission denied.

Try adding

USERCTL=yes 

to

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

(One of several arguments for moving ifconfig to /bin.)


But yeah, having programs in sbin isn't a security thing. It's an
organizational thing.


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