A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > How would a user find out the IP address assigned to eth0. This is a > normal user, not a sys-op, so he doesn't have access to ifconfig.
Even a normal user can run ifconfig; the normal user just can't change anything with ifconfig. Run this as a normal user: '/sbin/ifconfig eth0' You'll get something like this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:147.134.27.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14255398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6075619 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2 collisions:1617618 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb400 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein