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

[Shawn Starr]

> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Richard W.M.
> Jones
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:58 AM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> Subject: Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Rich.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat  

They use  (this comes from /etc/login.defs)

ENV_SUPATH      PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
ENV_PATH        PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games

I am not sure though if the PAM modules also read login's /etc/login.defs file (it seems to be though they do)

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games

$ su
Password:
# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin