On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:59 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > And I think we could solve 99.9% of the annoyance by addressing ifconfig, > > fdisk, lsmod, route, and the other small handful of programs mentioned in > > this thread. Like I said, it worked for traceroute back in 2003. :) > > Again, here's my personal list-at-a-glance of things to look at: > > bind: > /usr/sbin/rndc > > chkconfig: > /sbin/chkconfig > > freeipmi: > /usr/sbin/ipmiconsole > /usr/sbin/ipmipower > > hardlink: > /usr/sbin/hardlink > > iproute: > /sbin/ip > > module-init-tools: > /sbin/lsmod > /sbin/modinfo > > net-tools: > /sbin/arp > /sbin/ifconfig > /sbin/route > > ntp: > /usr/sbin/ntpq > > pciutils: > /sbin/lspci > > usbutils: > /sbin/lsusb > > wireless-tools: > /sbin/iwconfig > /sbin/iwlist > > That's 16 commands from 11 packages. Yes, there are a few more, but not > all that many. How hard would is be to just fix these (either symlink > or just move to /bin or /usr/bin as appropriate)? Consider the unprivileged use of removable media. And consider people dealing with virtual machine images, emulators and building images for embedded systems. In all these situations, I find myself wanting all disk/filesystem tools as a non-root user. So add to the list: /sbin/badblocks /sbin/blkid /sbin/cfdisk /sbin/debugfs /sbin/debugreiserfs /sbin/dosfsck /sbin/dosfslabel /sbin/dumpe2fs /sbin/e2fsck /sbin/e2image /sbin/e2label /sbin/fdisk /sbin/fsck /sbin/fsck.ext2 /sbin/fsck.ext3 /sbin/fsck.msdos /sbin/fsck.reiserfs /sbin/fsck.vfat /sbin/mkdosfs /sbin/mke2fs /sbin/mkfs /sbin/mkfs.cramfs /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /sbin/mkfs.msdos /sbin/mkfs.ntfs /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs /sbin/mkfs.vfat /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/mkswap /sbin/parted /sbin/reiserfsck /sbin/reiserfstune /sbin/resize2fs /sbin/resize_reiserfs /sbin/sfdisk /sbin/tune2fs /usr/sbin/mkntfs /usr/sbin/ntfsclone /usr/sbin/ntfscp /usr/sbin/ntfslabel /usr/sbin/ntfsresize /usr/sbin/ntfsundelete 43 more commands from 6 packages.
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