On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 14:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Will Woods (wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I actually created a Feature page after a discussion about this on > > #fedora-devel earlier this week: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity > > > > I think it summarizes the problem and (one) proposed solution fairly > > well. Feel free to expand/edit it.. > > > > Comments? > > Just fix $PATH. It is much much simpler. It's definitely simpler. And it's been the default in other distros (e.g. Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu) going back at least a decade. It's also the default in Mac OS X. But it's not the default in Fedora, and I can't figure out why. I wrote up the SbinSanity feature assuming that we had intentionally changed *away* from having /sbin in the path fairly recently - like during the Fedora Core days - and so someone must have had a damn good reason to make that change. I assumed there was weeks of discussion sitting in mailing list archives somewhere explaining the exact reasons for the choice and making a very convincing argument for keeping them separate. Now that I do some research I see that /sbin has not been in the normal PATH as far back as RHL9 and probably going back to RHL6 or earlier. I think it's just Always Been Like That. So there's no discussion and no convincing argument. Therefore: I'm with notting. Let's add /sbin:/usr/sbin to the path for normal users. -w
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