Run commands as regular user

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:30:08 +0000, Tadik wrote:

> As a new Linux user I have have been running everything as Admin (I know -
> BAD). Anyhow, as a 'normal' user now, I can not run commands such as
> ifconfig, etc. As a normal user, I 'su' and am running a root temporarily,
> but as root on the console in Gnome, I still can not run ifconfig or other
> administrative commands. I know it has something to do with being logged in
> a a normal user. Although I am root in console (via SU), how can I run
> these commands? Do I need to add paths or something to get this to work?
>
> Thank you.

sudo

Tadik wrote:

> As a new Linux user I have have been running everything as Admin (I know -
> BAD). Anyhow, as a 'normal' user now, I can not run commands such as
> ifconfig, etc. As a normal user, I 'su' and am running a root
> temporarily, but as root on the console in Gnome, I still can not run
> ifconfig or other
> administrative commands. I know it has something to do with being logged
> in
> a a normal user. Although I am root in console (via SU), how can I run
> these commands? Do I need to add paths or something to get this to work?
>
> Thank you.


ifconfig is in /sbin, so add /sbin to your path OR you can
just use the absolute path to the command. Since ifconfig is
in /sbin, you can run /sbin/ifconfig for example.

If you add "-" to the end of the su command, that will also
fix your problem with su in the Gnome console.

- tells su ("switch user") to load target user environment and
that includes its path setting. The username is optional,
if it doesn't exist, it assumes you mean root.

su - (no username, defaults to root, users roots environment)

su - someuser (username is someuser, uses 'someuser' environment)

su someuser (username is someuser but with no -, it inherits
environment of the caller)
Mark