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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:31:14PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've |
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> > seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users. |
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> Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc |
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> for such binaries. :) |
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From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin was |
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that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to be able |
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to come up without libraries. |
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As mgorny was talking about earlier, a good chunk of what is in sbin |
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*can* be run by normal users. |
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William |
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