Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 15:58 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:50 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:46 +0200, Pedro Jose wrote:
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > I send this question because in others computers with Fedora 8
> > > > installed, when I login as root with su, ifconfig is available, but in
> > > > my computer no. I'll try with su-, but my question is why  it works in
> > > > other computers and not in mine with su.
> > > > 
> > > It should not work on any computer. As was explained in the previous
> > > post su makes you root with the users environment that does not
> > > have /sbin or /usr/sbin in its path.
> > 
> > Maybe not by default, but I usually modify /etc/bashrc to include /sbin
> > and /usr/sbin in the PATH for root. /etc/profile actually does this
> > already but of ocurse that's only for login shells. I don't really see
> > the point of not doing it for "normal" su usage.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> I hope yo mean you put /sbin and /usr/sbin in the path for users. These
> are already in the default path for root.

I mean "for users becoming root via su without actually logging in as
root using 'su -'"

poc