On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:30:31AM -0400, 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? FWIW, Debian doesn't have these in normal users' PATH, but does change the PATH to include them when you do 'su'. On a Debian system: $ echo $PATH /home/rich/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games $ su Password: # echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 I don't know how Debian does this, but it's extremely useful. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
