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

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 23:19:55 UTC 2008


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> /bin vs. /usr/bin is motivated by the FHS mandating /usr to be on a
> filesystem of its own (and systems to be able to boot without /usr being
> available), while the */bin vs. */sbin split is motivated by splitting
> _system_ binaries off from ordinary users' $PATH.

But until the "system" runs these perfectly and completely automatically 
(i.e. never), users will have to execute them under circumstances that 
are already confusing enough without having differences between having 
used 'su' and 'su -' first.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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