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

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 
>> Mike Cronenworth wrote:
>>> No. It will promote proper program installation paths. Right now we
>>> basically have "Security Through Obscurity," which I thought was frowned
>>> upon in our world.
>> This has exactly nothing to do with security and all to do with minimizing
>> confusion/complexity for users vs providing convenient access to system tools.
> 
> $ ls /usr/bin/|wc -l
> 2533
> 
> $ ls /usr/sbin/|wc -l
> 374
> 
> Sure. 11% "more complexity" to be exact. And now imagine the enduser needs
> to know it's internal IP. NetworkManager doesnt display it. The user
> will need to go back to the command line and type "ifconfig" which of
> course then has to be "/sbin/ifconfig" (or rather, thanks to the avahi
> setup in f9, the user will have to type "ip addr list").
> 
> There is no reason to not give users the sbin's, and yes, it is the first
> thing I do on a new system too. The second thing is to remove the alias
> for cp,rm and mv. Here not the enduser, but the superuser, is protected
> against itself. Why not provide "undelete" too :P
> 
> Paul
> 

The ifconfig argument here is wasted, at least on me, since I agree that 
ifconfig could be symlinked to /bin. I don't agree, however, to put 
everything from */sbin/ into */bin/.

/Thomas