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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> > On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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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 |
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> > it 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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> +1 |
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> The sbin directories are separate from bin for the very reason that |
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> binaries in there (which are only usable with elevated privileges) can |
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> be excluded from normal users' PATH. |
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Binaries like blkid, btrfs, getcap, sensors, swapon and various tools |
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from net-tools, iputils, wireless-tools... and I really have better |
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things to do than list all tools that landed in sbin for some fun |
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reason yet work for normal users. |
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But well, I'm the weird one wanting to be able to check how much free |
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space I've got without going through hoops. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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