Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

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On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 18:19 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > /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.
> 
> But until the "system" runs these perfectly and completely automatically 
> (i.e. never), users will have to execute them under circumstances that 
> are already confusing enough without having differences between having 
> used 'su' and 'su -' first.

So what? 

They are acting as sys admins, therefore need to learn to act as such
and need to go through a learning curve in any case. In this context,
"su -", "su" etc. are marginal, negligible details.

Ralf


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