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

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On Wed April 23 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> 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, ...

Who does really know which tools belong to which category? E.g. I use modprobe 
very often as a non root user to get a list of possible modules:

modprobe -l

works fine as a normal user.

Regards,
Till

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