On Apr 23, 2008, at 5:30 AM, 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?
I would rather see any of the following:
- Complete elimination of sbin vs. bin dirs. Just put everything in
bin. This is probably a bad idea anyway, since it really shows bad
form. And who knows, we might have more than 32768 dentry's in bin
some day, and that would be bad for ext3.
- Picking the commands that make sense for non-root users and moving
them from sbin to bin (ifconfig and route, for instance). Isn't that
why mount(8) lives in /bin anyway?
I think modifying the default PATH is a short term solution, but I'd
rather see packaging policy changed and packages for F-10 changed to
move commands in to bin that should belong there.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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