On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > That is my recollection also. It was not in v7 but was in SysV for the reason you listed. I think SunOS-1 still had a lot of binaries in /etc. SunOS-2 was completely SysV and moved the items into /sbin, /bin. One idea was that service binaries could be protected by chmod etc out of the main path-views so even putting /sbin:/usr/sbin would not help a non-root user start up their own telnetd on port 9999. [selinux on the real cheap.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
