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? As many people already noted there are some reasons to hide them away from "normal" users. Effectively you suggest setting sbindir to bindir, e.g. why have /sbin, /usr/sbin at all if all PATHs point to both sbin/bin so that there is no split? So the argument is not about PATH, but about having the split in the first place. If a command is considered often called by users why not put a symlink to bindir instead? $ ls /sbin| wc -l;ls /usr/sbin| wc -l 312 486 I don't think that a handful of nice-to-have-for-power-users commands in PATH should really pollute the user's PATH with 800 more commands. Although I wouldn't consider "ifconfig, fdisk, parted" tools that inexperienced users should have at their fingertips. And the experienced users know how to add /usr/sbin:/sbin permanently to their login. In a nutshell: Keep things as are, but if there really is a command that is used by "normal" users move that out of sbin or make a symlink (commands that used to live in sbin and moved out are for example ping and traceroute) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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