Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >ifconfig(8) is not for luser consumption, and so are lots of others. `ifconfig` is _also_ for system administrators. Regular users — my Oracle DBAs, say — have a legitimate need to check the output of ifconfig on occasion; and I would just as soon not have to fiddle with paths or aliases for all those accounts on all the systems I administer. I also find it annoying that I either have to type the full path — particularly as it means I have to remember which of /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin the utility in questions resides in — or become root just to check ifconfig output. Utilities that serve a useful purpose for non-root users should by default be available in non-root users' path; if in no other way then at least by way of a symlink in the “unprivileged” directory. Conversely, utilities that non-root users should not be allowed to use need to be protected in an effective manner; and removing the directory from their path is not it. This isn't even security by obscurity, it's security by obtuseness. -- >For all I know they probably have a standard for >which direction to put the thread on a bolt. That would be ISO 261:1973. -- John Cowan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
