On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time, Suren Karapetyan <surenkarapetyan@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > And I still can't understand what's the point of running fdisk as a normal user. > > Think about virtualization setups; non-root users can run fdisk on disk > images. I assume if a guy is doing virt he should have some knowledge or be following a howto (in this case the author will still need to care about PATH because of many different distros) > > > > And I'm still waiting to be told what other tools are in "etc" > > I've posted my list a couple of times (and others have added to it), so > you've been told. Here's what else I use on at least a semi-regular > basis: > > /sbin/arp, /sbin/chkconfig, /sbin/ip, /sbin/iwconfig, /sbin/iwlist, > /sbin/lsmod, /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lsusb, /sbin/modinfo, /sbin/route, > /usr/sbin/hardlink, /usr/sbin/ipmiconsole, /usr/sbin/ipmipower, > /usr/sbin/ntpq, /usr/sbin/rndc OK You can use these tools to query for information, but most of the time You're going to take some action after it which will need root. So it will make sense to do "su -" And again most of these tools make no sense to a non-admin user. How many times did You use ipmi* before it became You job? The ones which make sense can be symlinked. So It boils down to at least power users, who can take care of themselves. And from the list You can tell that there's no right way of doing this. Some people like having sbin in their PATH, some don't. For now the default doesn't include sbin which means the ones who don't want sbin are lucky :-) . Those who want it may add it to their PATH in 15 secs. And You need to do it only once for every user,system couple. > > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > -- > > > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
