On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 12:05 PM Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 10:13 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: > [...] > > To be honest I wondered why there were no more reports on this. > > Perhaps I'm not the only one who has /sbin and /usr/sbin in the > $PATH of normal accounts too (and idk what's the default > behaviour of distributions is - my .bashrc "fixes" the > $PATH). > I was thinking more towards maxim/dictum: "Never break userspace!" or "It worked before but now it is not." Think of automated kernel build and test setups based on Debian. Debian/testing AMD64 has... [ /etc/login.defs ] # *REQUIRED* The default PATH settings, for superuser and normal users. # # (they are minimal, add the rest in the shell startup files) ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin ENV_PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games IMHO users should not need to fix their environment. ( The discussion is a bit obsolete as we now have a fix. ) - Sedat -
