On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:41:53AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones 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? >> >> FWIW, Debian doesn't have these in normal users' PATH, but does change >> the PATH to include them when you do 'su'. >> >> On a Debian system: >> >> $ echo $PATH >> /home/rich/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games >> $ su >> Password: # echo $PATH >> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 >> >> I don't know how Debian does this, but it's extremely useful. > > What happens if a debian user types 'ifconfig' to find his IP address? $ ifconfig -bash: ifconfig: command not found Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
