few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Richard Hally]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Will Woods wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Now that I do some research I see that /sbin has not been in the normal
>>  > PATH as far back as RHL9 and probably going back to RHL6 or earlier. I
>>  > think it's just Always Been Like That. So there's no discussion and no
>>  > convincing argument.
>>
>>  I'm sure it was that way in RH6, probably 4 - and confusing people even
>>  then.
>>
> 
> The /sbin paths have never been in a normal user as far as I can tell
> (from 3.0.3 days). The reason is that $(FOO)/sbin was meant to locate
> system administrator specific commands versus normal user commands.
> This is from the System VII days I think. On some systems a system
> administrator could make sure that these commands could not be
> executed by normals with a simple:
> 
> chmod 0750 /sbin /usr/sbin
> 
> with only people in the specific wheel or in the root group able to
> get there. This would lock down setuid programs.
> 
> 
you are correct and I far as I can remember it was that way back in 1978.
Richard