[Fedora-ambassadors-list] review of Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany

[Rex Dieter]

Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 14:24 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>> On 5/20/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>  * In Fedora /sbin is not in the PATH for _su_ example ifconfig but as
>>>> _su -_, /sbin is in the PATH? other distros like Mandriva and Suse it is
>>>> not the case. Why?
>>> I am not sure. I saw a discussion initiated by you in fedora-devel list
>>> but I didnt see any concrete answers. Did you get any?
>> Till now, these were what I had. But I think Ill ask this question in
>> Suse and Mandriva mailing lists to be better documented in this field.
> 
> Does it matter?
> 
> 1) su is not supposed to change your $PATH at all, so it works perfectly
> fine
> 2) you should always use su -, or rather, su --login

Agreed.

> 3) Nothing in the /sbin should be run as a user anyway

It's (3) that's the matter of contention.  *Some* folks (not me) disagree.

-- Rex