On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:40 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > The /sbin and /usr/sbin directories contain many utilities that are > useful to non-superusers, such as ifconfig, netstat, arp, fuser, lsusb, > runlevel, dumpe2fs, hwclock, lsof, traceroute, and many others. > Obviously, most of those utilities can do -more- when run as superuser, > but that doesn't diminish their value to mortals. > > For years, one of the first changes I've made to my Fedora (and RHL) > systems is to comment out 'if' in /etc/profile that adds > "/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin" only to the path of the superuser: > > # Path manipulation > #if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then > pathmunge /sbin > pathmunge /usr/sbin > pathmunge /usr/local/sbin > #fi > > Here's my question: Why don't we take that 'if' in the > default /etc/profile, so those directories are in everyone's (default) > PATH? Reasoning: Users who need it can add the following to their bash ~/.profile file: export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin (or /sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH ) or create symlinks to what they need in ~/bin/ or create a bashe alias or ... There is no need for /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin to be in the path of unprivileged user by default. Users can change that themselves if they need them in their path - either temporarily or permanently. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
