Once upon a time, Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > The /sbin/ (and /usr/sbin, et al.) stuff is specifically meant for > administrative utilities. Having it in a user's PATH makes no sense when > they are not meant to use these. And, if they *are* meant to use them, > then it's likely that they need at least limited root privileges, so > sudo or something similar should be configured for the purpose, not > merely some PATH munging. There are a number of things in the sbin directories that are NOT root-only. They may be things that are generally only useful to system administrators, but they don't require root access. Then there are things that are designed specifically to NOT be run as root that are in sbin directories; bonnie++ for example. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
