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

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

On Apr 23, 2008, at 5:30 AM, 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?


I would rather see any of the following:

- Complete elimination of sbin vs. bin dirs.  Just put everything in  
bin.  This is probably a bad idea anyway, since it really shows bad  
form.  And who knows, we might have more than 32768 dentry's in bin  
some day, and that would be bad for ext3.
- Picking the commands that make sense for non-root users and moving  
them from sbin to bin (ifconfig and route, for instance).  Isn't that  
why mount(8) lives in /bin anyway?

I think modifying the default PATH is a short term solution, but I'd  
rather see packaging policy changed and packages for F-10 changed to  
move commands in to bin that should belong there.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI