Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 16:41:53 UTC 2008


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:30:31AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> I propose that we add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path for normal users
>> (as well as root) for F10? There are plenty of useful tools in there for
>> non-root users (ifconfig, fdisk, parted), and IMHO, any tool which
>> assumes the user is root because it lives in /sbin is fundamentally
>> broken. The LSB doesn't mandate this (at least, not anywhere I can see),
>> so I propose that we just do it.
>>
>> Anyone opposed to such an action?
> 
> FWIW, Debian doesn't have these in normal users' PATH, but does change
> the PATH to include them when you do 'su'.
> 
> On a Debian system:
> 
>   $ echo $PATH
>   /home/rich/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
>   $ su
>   Password: 
>   # echo $PATH
>   /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
> 
> I don't know how Debian does this, but it's extremely useful.

What happens if a debian user types 'ifconfig' to find his IP address?

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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