On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:09:59PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> How to get the address of the local machine without using "root"?
> ifconfig cannot be issued by a common user. TIA!
Yes it can, the only problem is that by default /sbin will not be
on the PATH of a non-root user.
Just run it as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:6C:ED:1A:51
inet addr:192.168.1.40 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::201:6cff:feed:1a51/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
If you want the address something like this will work:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}'| awk -F: '{print
$2}'
eg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ IP=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print
$2}'| awk -F: '{print $2}'`
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo ${IP}
192.168.1.40
There are probably better ways, but that was the first thing that I tried..
Steve
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