On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:47 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever served > >> flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are > >> one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having > >> commands work and sometimes not. > > This proposal is in the same class of proposals proposing to abandon > > "user accounts" and/or to use "root only". > > No it is not. There are absolutely no security considerations *right now* for > whether a normal user has /*/sbin in their path or not. Correct, security is not the point. The point is *usability* It's in the same lane as "Who needs root, gid/uids when I am the only user on a system? > This has nothing > whatsoever to do with access permission or authorization for actions those > binaries may attempt to make. Changing to root only definitely does. That's not my rationale. IMO, this proposal is yet the n-th manifestation of Fedora going down the drain - Frankly speaking, to me this proposal is such kind of absurd, I can only turn away in disgust. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
