Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Wed Apr 23 17:22:37 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:30 -0400, 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. The LSB doesn't mandate this (at least, not anywhere I can see),
> so I propose that we just do it.
>
> Anyone opposed to such an action?
The tools in /sbin are divided into two categories:
a) Those that are useful for non-root users, mostly in a
query/reporting capacity. Like ifconfig, lsmod, and fdisk (for -l),
lspci, lsusb, ...
b) Those that are not useful without root privileges. Like modprobe,
rmmod, insmod, fsck, swapoff, ...
There are 3 ways to handle this issue:
1) All of a) and b) in /sbin, and /sbin not in users' path. This is
the current setting.
2) All of a) and b) in /sbin, and /sbin in users' path. This is what
you propose.
3) Symlink all of a) into /bin (or symlink), but keep b) in /sbin and
keep /sbin out of users' path.
In an ideal world, we would have 3. But it's a lot of packaging work.
Failing that, there's near consensus that 2) is better than 1) as the
set of commands in group a) seems to be larger than b).
> ~spot
>
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