On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:46 +0200, Pedro Jose wrote: > 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. On each of your computers, type in an "echo $PATH" command, using the different methods that you use to become root. You'll see that Fedora doesn't include /sbin in the path for non-root users. If you switch users to root by just using "su" then you're still using the non-root user's paths and environment. If you log in as root, or do "su -" to switch to root, then you're using the roots environment, which includes /sbin. The search path is used to find commands when you type in the command without using the full path to the command. i.e. Typing in "ifconfig" rather than "/sbin/ifconfig". There's a reason that ordinary users don't include /sbin: There can be commands in /bin and /sbin with the same command name, but to do slightly different roles. The root user will use the first one if finds, the one in /sbin, which may allow them to do more than what an ordinary user can do with the /bin command. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
