On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Will Woods wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > I'm sure it was that way in RH6, probably 4 - and confusing people even > then. > The /sbin paths have never been in a normal user as far as I can tell (from 3.0.3 days). The reason is that $(FOO)/sbin was meant to locate system administrator specific commands versus normal user commands. This is from the System VII days I think. On some systems a system administrator could make sure that these commands could not be executed by normals with a simple: chmod 0750 /sbin /usr/sbin with only people in the specific wheel or in the root group able to get there. This would lock down setuid programs. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
