"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > I propose that we add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path for normal users >> > ... >> > Anyone opposed to such an action? >> >> /me > > Your thorough and elaborately explained reasoning has concisely shown me > the errors in my proposal. Thank you for taking the time to reply to my > email with such useful and important information. ok; let me more verbose: 1. such changes require a good reason; direct reachability of a fistful of programs is not a good reason. There are side effects (console helper, other programs relying on traditional $PATH) which are not handled in your proposition. 2. 80-90% of programs under */sbin are without any use for normal users; mentioned 'ifconfig' + 'route' are called by normal users for diagnostic reasons only. This assumes some adminstrative knowledge including awareness about the special /sbin paths. 3. tab-completion will show me a lot of new programs which are for zero use. This will slow down my work. 4. problems which are tried to be solved can be handled much better at other places (e.g. modify 'sudo' to search in */sbin, or link commonly used programs to */bin) Enrico -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
