Axel Thimm wrote:
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
Is it really better to keep the rest out of the way though? Consider a
user who is told to run a given set of commands, but forgets that he
must do it as root. Isn't the average command's "permission denied"
message better than "command not found?" The latter is confusing, and
can cause panic in a user who (as often happens) has no idea how to use
the terminal and is simply following a set of instructions he was told
would give him results.
--CJD
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