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

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:01 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:53:04PM +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > 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. 
> >
> > Perhaps the initial ancient UNIX idea was to isolate unprivileged users 
> > from commands which they cannot run. IOW, to avoid a situation "I've 
> > discovered that there is a command, but why I have no rights to run it?" :)
> 
> AFAIK the /sbin split was done around the late 80s.  First saw it in
> SunOS.  Old (V7 etc.) versions of Unix just had /bin and /usr/bin.

Yep, but it had the administrative commands in /etc. Unless I am
wrong, /sbin was a new home for them to separate them from configuration
files.

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)