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

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue May 9 20:10:11 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 10:45 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:

> 
> To me, this is justification for moving ifconfig to /bin, fuser to
> /usr/bin, etc.  If something has use to non-superusers, it should not be
> in /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc.

That should only be done with symlinks because it is expected that they
be where they are by existing scripts - which often call them full path
for security reasons.




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