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

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Apr 24 18:18:05 UTC 2008


Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:03 -0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>> Tomas Mraz wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 06:23 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:01:15AM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
>>>>>> desktop centric and lacks generality. Some pieces are even close to be
>>>>>> unusable outside of desktops (e.g. NM, PA, SELinux).
>>>>> SELinux? You have to be kidding, aren't you?
>>>> Show me an in-production server doing anything slightly out of the bounds of
>>>> the expected, and I'll show you a machine with SELinux turned off. :)
>>> That it is not yet super-easy to use SELinux on servers doesn't mean
>>> that it is unusable. It is perfectly possible to use it on most servers
>>> but it of course requires some effort from the sysadmin to learn it.
>> Really, adding */sbin/ to PATH or individual commands should be no 
>> different, right?
> 
> I do not argue with you at all. I do not think that */sbin should be
> added to user's PATH by default. My vote is for moving/symlinking
> commands which are useful for regular users.

Mine too :-)

/Thomas




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