/sbin:/usr/sbin in mortal's PATH

[Horst von Brand]

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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