On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:43:46AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > I propose that we add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path for normal users > > (as well as root) for F10? There are plenty of useful tools in there for > > non-root users (ifconfig, fdisk, parted), and IMHO, any tool which > > assumes the user is root because it lives in /sbin is fundamentally > > broken. The LSB doesn't mandate this (at least, not anywhere I can see), > > so I propose that we just do it. > > > > Anyone opposed to such an action? > > > > ~spot > > -1 it will break quite a few things. especially everything that uses > consolehelper. it could be worked around by putting /sbin:/usr/sbin at the > end of path > > [dennis@bratac gilmore]$ /sbin/parted /dev/sda print > WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. > Error: Error opening /dev/sda: Permission denied > > a standard install doesn't allow a user to use parted. ifconfig is probably > the only thing i use regularly thats in one of the sbin paths that works > fine when you are not root. > > really the only way to make it useful would be to default to setting up sudo > that way if it fails you can do sudo <foo> rather than sudo </path/to/foo> > > Dennis I think we can simply create /sbin -> /bin and /usr/sbin -> /usr/bin for backward compatibility. Typing /sbin every time when I want run ifconfig or service <something> status is really annoying. Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
