Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Apr 23 16:22:57 UTC 2008
"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
>> > I propose that we add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path for normal users
>> > ...
>> > Anyone opposed to such an action?
>>
>> /me
>
> Your thorough and elaborately explained reasoning has concisely shown me
> the errors in my proposal. Thank you for taking the time to reply to my
> email with such useful and important information.
ok; let me more verbose:
1. such changes require a good reason; direct reachability of a fistful
of programs is not a good reason. There are side effects (console
helper, other programs relying on traditional $PATH) which are not
handled in your proposition.
2. 80-90% of programs under */sbin are without any use for normal
users; mentioned 'ifconfig' + 'route' are called by normal users
for diagnostic reasons only. This assumes some adminstrative
knowledge including awareness about the special /sbin paths.
3. tab-completion will show me a lot of new programs which are for zero
use. This will slow down my work.
4. problems which are tried to be solved can be handled much better at
other places (e.g. modify 'sudo' to search in */sbin, or link commonly
used programs to */bin)
Enrico
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