/sbin:/usr/sbin in mortal's PATH

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Chris Tyler wrote:

> Agreed - the code in /etc/profile should probably read:
>
> 	# Path manipulation
> 	if [ "$EUID" = 0 ]; then
> 	        pathmunge /sbin
> 	        pathmunge /usr/sbin
> 	        pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
> 	else
> 	        pathmunge /sbin after
> 	        pathmunge /usr/sbin after
> 	        pathmunge /usr/local/sbin after
> 	fi

But that would break syntax highlighting in vi for root when invoked as "vi"
instead of "vim". Though leaving out a root check does that as well.

Paul