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

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 16:23:56 UTC 2008


Axel Thimm wrote:
>> And in one window you're busily typing away root commands while the other 
>> is tailing your applications log file as a normal user.
> 
> Why a normal user? Is this a remote system in pain managed by myself
> or is this my desktop system I happen to be logged on as a non-root
> user?
> 
> I don't see multiple xterms as an argument to running diagnosics and
> other utils as non-root. The only time I would like to become non-root
> on these systems is to see whether there are any ACL issues with what
> I just fixed.
> 
You don't become non-root.  You start off as non-root.  Then you su - as 
needed.  Opening up a connection and su - may well be what I did in the 
first window immediately.  But in the second terminal why bother with 
that?  My immediate concern was tailing the already readable log file. 
No reason to su -; cd /wherever/i/was/before/i/used/su ; tail -f 
app.log.  Running getenforce is a spur of the moment inspiration.  It 
should be simple to Ctrl-Z that log; sudo getenforce; fg since I'm doing 
something else in the terminal where I'm already su'd.

-Toshio

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