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

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Wed Apr 23 15:53:04 UTC 2008


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> I propose that we add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path for normal users
> (as well as root) for F10? There are plenty of useful tools in there for
> non-root users (ifconfig, fdisk, parted), and IMHO, any tool which
> assumes the user is root because it lives in /sbin is fundamentally
> broken. 

Perhaps the initial ancient UNIX idea was to isolate unprivileged users 
from commands which they cannot run. IOW, to avoid a situation "I've 
discovered that there is a command, but why I have no rights to run it?" :)


~buc
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