Commands Required by all users

[pablo paul]

Sure this has been asked 1000's of times i have searched but didn't find anything obvious. How do i enable users other than root to access the following programs

iwconfig
iwlist

and maybe even dhclient (ihaven't been asked for this yet but i'm sure it will)

[bob]

Use the chmod command - here's some information: http://www.linuxcommand.org/ "Learning The Shell", Chapt. 7

[pablo paul]

Sorry probably didn't explain myself to well. I know how to use chmod to change permissions i'm more interested in how do i stop someome having to type:

./sbin/iwconfig (I think that paths wrong i'm on a XP box at the moment)

So as if you were root the user would just type:

iwconfig

From my very little Unix experience i think you added a line in .dtprofile, does gnome have something similar? How would i format the entry?

[Jman]

You add /sbin to the PATH environment variable (and perhaps /usr/sbin). There's howtos for how to do this.

Note that the user will have all the administrative programs in those dirs on their PATH as well.