> -----Original Message----- > [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard W.M. > Jones > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:58 AM > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > Subject: Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10 > > > 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 They use (this comes from /etc/login.defs) ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin ENV_PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games I am not sure though if the PAM modules also read login's /etc/login.defs file (it seems to be though they do) $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games $ su Password: # echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
