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

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> said:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> > But ifconfig(8) is not for luser consumption, and so are lots of
> > others.
> 
> I have troubles comprehending that statement. What tool would you
> recommend if a unprivileged user wanted to know the IP address of the
> system? 'cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address' ?
> 
> Or is it useful for an unprivileged user to know the WCHAN of running
> processes (/bin/ps), the current keymappings (/bin/dumpkeys), and the
> date and time that the kernel was compiled (/bin/uname -a), but not the
> IP address?

To me, this is justification for moving ifconfig to /bin, fuser to
/usr/bin, etc.  If something has use to non-superusers, it should not be
in /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.