On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:53:04PM +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > 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. > > Perhaps the initial ancient UNIX idea was to isolate unprivileged users > from commands which they cannot run. IOW, to avoid a situation "I've > discovered that there is a command, but why I have no rights to run it?" :) AFAIK the /sbin split was done around the late 80s. First saw it in SunOS. Old (V7 etc.) versions of Unix just had /bin and /usr/bin. 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
