Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

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I am not sure it is good. Then what is the sense of having some programs in /sbin and /usr/sbin. All of them can be in /bin or /usr/bin if there is no difference and you have all of them in the  path.

--- On Wed, 4/23/08, Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 11:53 AM

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:30 -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.

+1

Later,
/B
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