Hello everyone,

I am currently running kali 2.0 dual boot on imac, I am having problems with root permissions commands that never need root permissions will now only show if i am using sudo or am root. Things like ifconfig or iwconfig if i try to run one of these at user level it says command not found.

This is a problem only because when i write a script it wont execute because its looking for root user or it cant find the command. The sec i use sudo or go root these applications become available. Is there anyway to fix this issue and at least make it so my scripts can execute at root level. Thank you for any help i might receive. I appreciate everyone taking the time to read this post.

Welcome aboard.

Check out man sudo.

i will do that right now.

Im not sure what im looking for i went into my sudoers file and couldnt really find much. Im sorry if im missing something thats rite in front of me i read through it twice. I just want to be able to execute scripts that are on a schedule but need root permissions.

Check out this link. And PLEASE be VERY careful if you implement this solution. root is root for a reason.
http://superuser.com/questions/44036...xecute-as-root

Sounds to me like this is simply a case of the non-root users $PATH not containing /sbin:/usr/sbin. That would explain the command not found for things like ifconfig. Obviously, some commands in those directories will need to run as root, but if you're just using them to query or display things then many don't.

Good practice with shell scripts is to always explicitly set PATH= when it starts which avoids problems like this.

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root has a different path than regular users, in particular sbin. Many commands in sbin don't require root access for displaying parameters though, any user can do it, but unless you give it the full path to the binary it won't be able to find it, since /sbin and /usr/sbin aren't typically in regular users' PATH.

Kali is NORMALLY ran as ROOT
you normally login AS root
and normally there is only one user " root "

this is why you NEED to use EXTREME caution when using kali
just like in the BT5 days

user = root
password =toor