Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Apr 23 18:23:30 UTC 2008
Once upon a time, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> said:
> 3) Symlink all of a) into /bin (or symlink), but keep b) in /sbin and
> keep /sbin out of users' path.
>
> In an ideal world, we would have 3. But it's a lot of packaging work.
How much, really? There are maybe a couple of dozen commands in /sbin
and /usr/sbin that are useful to non-root users, and many of them come
from the same package. Many of them probably don't even need symlinks
(who cares that lspci has moved for example).
Now, I always just have PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin in the system profile
on my systems (so I certainly don't object to doing that by default),
but it would be better to do this the "right" way. The packaging
guidelines going forward could then have something like:
- /sbin: for administration tools only useful for root and needed to
boot the system
- /usr/sbin: for other administration tools only useful for root
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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