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

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Apr 23 17:32:34 UTC 2008


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?
> 

Not at all,

+1000000

I've been consistenly changing /etc/profile todo exactly this since the day I 
started using RH 4.0

Regards,

Hans




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