/sbin:/usr/sbin in mortal's PATH
Horst von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sun May 7 20:38:55 UTC 2006
Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
[...]
> The point is not that they can do it, the point is that:
>
> 1) it does not add any security to the system not having these in the
> path
Right.
> 2) it is annoying for experienced users who are used to these commands
> being in their path.
They fix that once for their account, no sweat.
> 3) There is no penalty for giving mortals these extra commands.
Confused end-users who wonder what all the weird commands do is a penalty.
> So instead of telling us how we can fix it in 5 ways on every single box
> we install, tell us what the harm would be if mortals have these
> commands.
I do remember times before /sbin and /usr/sbin... the change was done quite
a while back to segregate administration commands from end-user commands.
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