More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 13:22 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2008 13:14:09 Seth Vidal wrote:
> > I think the resistance you're getting is how binaries (to a person running
> > as non-root) appear to be vanishing. Things they could do, they suddenly
> > cannot.
> 
> Its been this way since about 2005. This didn't suddenly happen.

I've been using RHL/Fedora since 1999, and before that Slackware
starting in 1997. So that depends on what your definition of "suddenly"
is... ;)

I also may be thinking of my *Debian* server, which to this day does not
suffer from this braindeadness:

$ ls -l /sbin/ /usr/sbin/|grep \\---

$ ls -l /usr/sbin/usermod 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60160 2007-02-27 01:53 /usr/sbin/usermod
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