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

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Thu Apr 24 11:09:34 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:03 -0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 06:23 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:01:15AM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >>>> desktop centric and lacks generality. Some pieces are even close to be
> >>>> unusable outside of desktops (e.g. NM, PA, SELinux).
> >>> SELinux? You have to be kidding, aren't you?
> >> Show me an in-production server doing anything slightly out of the bounds of
> >> the expected, and I'll show you a machine with SELinux turned off. :)
> > 
> > That it is not yet super-easy to use SELinux on servers doesn't mean
> > that it is unusable. It is perfectly possible to use it on most servers
> > but it of course requires some effort from the sysadmin to learn it.
> 
> Really, adding */sbin/ to PATH or individual commands should be no 
> different, right?

I do not argue with you at all. I do not think that */sbin should be
added to user's PATH by default. My vote is for moving/symlinking
commands which are useful for regular users.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb




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