It looks like our installs set up /usr/local/bin to be group staff and writable by staff, and place /usr/local/(s)bin before /usr/(s)bin in root's PATH.
I was a little surprised because I thought we used to exclude the /usr/local directories from root's path by default, but perhaps we changed our policies or perhaps my memory is mistaken. Also, I wonder if our handling of /usr/local isn't a bit inconsistent since it doesn't look like we include /usr/local/lib in the ld.so defaults. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4