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. > > Anyone opposed to such an action? The tools in /sbin are divided into two categories: a) Those that are useful for non-root users, mostly in a query/reporting capacity. Like ifconfig, lsmod, and fdisk (for -l), lspci, lsusb, ... b) Those that are not useful without root privileges. Like modprobe, rmmod, insmod, fsck, swapoff, ... There are 3 ways to handle this issue: 1) All of a) and b) in /sbin, and /sbin not in users' path. This is the current setting. 2) All of a) and b) in /sbin, and /sbin in users' path. This is what you propose. 3) Symlink all of a) into /bin (or symlink), but keep b) in /sbin and keep /sbin out of users' path. In an ideal world, we would have 3. But it's a lot of packaging work. Failing that, there's near consensus that 2) is better than 1) as the set of commands in group a) seems to be larger than b). > ~spot > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
