On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:53:28PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > I tried to execute > ifconfig eth0 down > on my system as non-root, and got permission denied. Try adding USERCTL=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (One of several arguments for moving ifconfig to /bin.) But yeah, having programs in sbin isn't a security thing. It's an organizational thing. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>