Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > The point is not that they can do it, the point is that: > > 1) it does not add any security to the system not having these in the > path Right. > 2) it is annoying for experienced users who are used to these commands > being in their path. They fix that once for their account, no sweat. > 3) There is no penalty for giving mortals these extra commands. Confused end-users who wonder what all the weird commands do is a penalty. > So instead of telling us how we can fix it in 5 ways on every single box > we install, tell us what the harm would be if mortals have these > commands. I do remember times before /sbin and /usr/sbin... the change was done quite a while back to segregate administration commands from end-user commands. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
