Re: ifconfig??

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:44:16 -0700

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:33:22 -0800
Perfect Reign <theperfectreign@yahoo.com> wrote:

mine:

   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55160 2004-10-01 18:44 /sbin/ifconfig

Your's:
 
   -rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 55160 2004-10-01 18:44 /sbin/ifconfig
 
See the difference? This file is owned by root (permissions are the
first group 'rwx') and root can Read, Write and eXecute this file. It
belongs to group 'root' (permissions are the second group 'r-x') so
all members of root group can Read and eXecute it. Everyone else uses
the permissions from the third group 'r--' so all they can do is Read
it.

You can change the permissions on this file, when logged in as root, by
doing:

   chmod o+x /sbin/ifconfig

or

   chmod 755 /sbin/ifconfig

If it reverts back, check the contents of your /etc/permissions.* files
to see if /sbin/ifconfig is being set in them, by doing:

   grep ifconfig /etc/permissions.[elps]* 

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