On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:01 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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. Yep, but it had the administrative commands in /etc. Unless I am wrong, /sbin was a new home for them to separate them from configuration files. -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
