User Can't Access ifconfig on Elementary Loki

   
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It’s very annoying for user should do sudo ifconfig every time

Overview

Elementary OS Loki is Ubuntu Xenial based with pantheon desktop and Loki not have net-tools to run arp, route, iptunnel and of course ifconfig.

I need install net-tools

$ sudo apt install net-tools

Then run ifconfig command (as user) and it still not working

ifconfig not work

But you can do with sudo su or root account. This tutorial will show how to run app located on /sbin like ifconfig as normal user

Goal

The goal of case is user can access ifconfig (without run sudo or su)

How

We can try to setting up PATH to access /sbin/ifconfig or use alternative way

Set $PATH

There are several ways what I want it.

First think is I have to try assign special access for user to execute /sbin directory.

Generally, checking the content of PATH (user) to ensure system failure. The default output for command echo $PATH is

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

Source: https://askubuntu.com…

just add that path to /etc/environment to fix. this a Ubuntu system-wide configuration file, contains variables specifying the basic environment for all processes.

$ sudo vi /etc/environment

Then, execute these path

$ source /etc/environment

Alternative

If you dont like opening access to sbin directory, try alternative

  1. Another tool to show network interfaces like ifconfig. Thereis ip addr
  2. Use Change mode chmod 4755 /sbin/ifconfig. In same time you can do ifconfig until you close terminal

Thats all.