Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Bill Crawford
billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 17:23:42 UTC 2008
On 23/04/2008, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 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?
Not at all.
Please could we write a version of "pathmunge" that uses:
case ":$path:" in
"*:$dir:*")
;;
*)
case $where in
after)
path="$path:$dir"
;;
before)
path="$dir:$path"
;;
esac
esac
though?
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