Hi Angus! :-)

 AM> Yeah!  When I (as non-root) run 'ifconfig' it soesn't tell me some 
 AM> shit about operation being disallowed.  It says

 AM>     ifconfig: command not found
That's because ifconfig is not in the $PATH of normal users. You'd need to
give the full path:

    /sbin/ifconfig

That works as non-root, it will just display the interface stats. You'd get
permission denied error if you actually tried to use ifconfig to change
some settings, though.

Ciao
Pascal

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