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

Mike Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed Apr 23 20:10:26 UTC 2008


-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Date: 04/23/2008 12:32 PM

> 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?
>>
> 
> Not at all,
> 
> +1000000
> 
> I've been consistenly changing /etc/profile todo exactly this since the 
> day I started using RH 4.0
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 

+1000000 here too

I'm tired of editing profiles, too. I've never had any trouble with 
/sbin and /usr/sbin in my PATH for over two years. It's frustrated me 
more than enough times.

Mike




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