Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Thomas M Steenholdt
tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Apr 24 01:30:33 UTC 2008
Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Debarshi Ray wrote:
>>> 2. 80-90% of programs under */sbin are without any use for normal
>>> users; mentioned 'ifconfig' + 'route' are called by normal users
>>> for diagnostic reasons only. This assumes some adminstrative
>>> knowledge including awareness about the special /sbin paths.
>>
>> ping is also used for diagnostic uses only, is setuid root and stays
>> in /bin. One might argue that ping and traceroute also require
>> "administrative knowledge".
>>
>>> 3. tab-completion will show me a lot of new programs which are for zero
>>> use. This will slow down my work.
>>
>> I have over 3150 binaries in my default Fedora path now. The sbin
>> stuff amounts to 600 more. Come one, that is just a 20% rise.
>>
>>> 4. problems which are tried to be solved can be handled much better at
>>> other places (e.g. modify 'sudo' to search in */sbin, or link
>>> commonly
>>> used programs to */bin)
>>
>> One has to configure sudo separately. So that is not much of a
>> usability improvement.
>>
>> Cheerio,
>> Debarshi
>
> I believe an update to the default /etc/sudoers file adding to the path
> via env_keep should be doable?
>
> /Thomas
>
Aparrently, env_keep won't work for this, but it's still doable with
standard sudo - it might need additional config options or something
though...
/Thomas
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