On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:20 -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:06 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries (static-bin). > > That's not what the FHS states > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard>. /bin is > for "Essential command binaries that need to be available in single user > mode; for all users (e.g., cat, ls, cp).", and /sbin is for "Essential > system binaries (e.g., init, route, ifup).", and similarly for /bin > and /sbin that resides in /usr, but with the added "Non-essential" bit. > The key, IMO, is that the ${prefix}/bin is meant for all users, where > ${prefix}/sbin is not (restricted access). > .( o ). Does anyone else find the idea of a 'normal' user (i.e not sysadmin) running single user mode without /usr mounted as an amusing concept? I suppose there are some systems that run only in single user mode, but whether any non-root users have ever logged in there would be suprising. Even during the boot process before going multi-user, we are running as UID 0, AFAIK. David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
