2008/3/26 Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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 +1 -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
