few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

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2008/3/26 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:02 -0600, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>  > but being as /sbin paths are
>  > meant for administrative tasks, I actually do see having them as part of
>  > a regular user's PATH a potential security risk.
>
>  That's completely bogus.  A "hidden path" offers 0 security.  If you
>  don't want your users running them, set the permissions on the binary,
>  or better yet, have the binary check the EUID of the caller.  If
>  non-root, display that the command is for root users, but also allow the
>  user to get --help and other usage or informational output from the
>  command.  Just don't allow non-root users to apply anything.  There
>  really is no reason I can think of to hide this crap in a different
>  directory.  It just adds needless complication and confusion.

Is Fedora committed to the FHS? Or is Red Hat still committed to it?

The purpose was for root only programs of a certain class to be
located in /sbin for example but including non-root programs there
does muddy the experience for the end user. However I do think it is
cleaner to make those programs available to a user by means other than
adding /sbin to the default path of a normal user. A few links are
cheap. Would links for those in /usr/bin clash with the FHS?

John