On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:22 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:30 -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? > > The tools in /sbin are divided into two categories: > > a) Those that are useful for non-root users, mostly in a > query/reporting capacity. Like ifconfig, lsmod, and fdisk (for -l), > lspci, lsusb, ... > > b) Those that are not useful without root privileges. Like modprobe, > rmmod, insmod, fsck, swapoff, ... > > > There are 3 ways to handle this issue: > > 1) All of a) and b) in /sbin, and /sbin not in users' path. This is > the current setting. > > 2) All of a) and b) in /sbin, and /sbin in users' path. This is what > you propose. > > 3) Symlink all of a) into /bin (or symlink), but keep b) in /sbin and > keep /sbin out of users' path. > > > In an ideal world, we would have 3. But it's a lot of packaging work. > Failing that, there's near consensus that 2) is better than 1) as the > set of commands in group a) seems to be larger than b). The split /bin vs. /usr/bin is completely unrelated to the split between */bin vs. */bin. /bin vs. /usr/bin is motivated by the FHS mandating /usr to be on a filesystem of its own (and systems to be able to boot without /usr being available), while the */bin vs. */sbin split is motivated by splitting _system_ binaries off from ordinary users' $PATH. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
