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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:36:03PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH |
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> > for all users. |
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> This sounds strange to me, if it should be executable by all users it |
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> likely shouldn't be in sbin in the first place but in bin. In any |
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> case; I don't see any good reason to change the traditional behavior |
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> of sbin only being in path for root. |
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This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've seen |
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have the sbin directories in the path for all users. |
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I wanted to open the discussion, because the fact that we remove sbin |
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from paths was cited on the bug I referred to as a reason I should keep |
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the patch that the prefix team applied to dev-lang/go. |
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My opinion is prefix should either fix their paths (include /sbin) even |
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though they are running unprivileged, or it would be better even if they |
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found a way to do the same test that did not require access to sbin and |
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contributed that to Go upstream. |
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William |
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