Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Till Maas
opensource at till.name
Tue Apr 29 17:53:07 UTC 2008
On Wed April 23 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> The tools in /sbin are divided into two categories:
>
> a) Those that are useful for non-root users, mostly in a
> query/reporting capacity. Like ifconfig, lsmod, and fdisk (for -l),
> lspci, lsusb, ...
>
> b) Those that are not useful without root privileges. Like modprobe,
> rmmod, insmod, fsck, swapoff, ...
Who does really know which tools belong to which category? E.g. I use modprobe
very often as a non root user to get a list of possible modules:
modprobe -l
works fine as a normal user.
Regards,
Till
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