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Re: how to find out ethernet device name

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how to find out ethernet device name
Date	2018-04-18 15:00 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:31:14AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2018-04-17, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> > sudo ip link;
> 
> Do you need sudo for that (would I get something else here if I was
> root)?

No, you don't.  Don is probably just used to the years of needing sudo
or an explicit path to ifconfig.  The ip command is in a place where
users can simply run it without needing either sudo or a prefixed path.

Looks like this has been the case since iproute2 was first added in
squeeze.

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how to find out ethernet device name Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-17 23:40 +0200
  Re: how to find out ethernet device name Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-04-17 23:50 +0200
    (solved) Re: how to find out ethernet device name Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-18 00:00 +0200
    Re: how to find out ethernet device name Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-04-18 00:20 +0200
      Re: how to find out ethernet device name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-18 14:30 +0200
        Re: how to find out ethernet device name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-18 14:50 +0200
    Re: how to find out ethernet device name Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-04-18 10:40 +0200
      Re: how to find out ethernet device name Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-18 15:00 +0200

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