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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:34 -0800 |
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Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 11/25/2015 10:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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> > 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 |
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> >>>> PATH for all users. |
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> >> |
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> >>> This sounds strange to me, if it should be executable by all |
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> >>> users it likely shouldn't be in sbin in the first place but in |
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> >>> bin. In any case; I don't see any good reason to change the |
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> >>> traditional behavior of sbin only being in path for root. |
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> >> |
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> >> +1 |
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> >> |
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> >> The sbin directories are separate from bin for the very reason |
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> >> that binaries in there (which are only usable with elevated |
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> >> privileges) can be excluded from normal users' PATH. |
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> > Binaries like blkid, btrfs, getcap, sensors, swapon and various |
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> > tools from net-tools, iputils, wireless-tools... and I really have |
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> > better things to do than list all tools that landed in sbin for |
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> > some fun 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 |
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> > free space I've got without going through hoops. |
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> > |
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> Maybe I'm missing something, but `df` is in /bin. Do you use something |
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> else to determine free space? |
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btrfs fi df |
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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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