On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:52 AM, lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 02,January,2012 12:50 AM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 00:42 +0800, lina wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it safe to add /sbin into PATH? >> >> there should be no problem, but a regular (non-root) user will not be >> able to do much with it because most of those executables will at some >> point require root privilege (at least that is my guess) >> >>> Why the default path not include /sbin, >> >> On my system (Debian wheezy) I have it on root's PATH but not on regular >> user's PATH: >> >> root@wheejy:~# echo $PATH >> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin >> >> jmf@wheejy:~$ echo $PATH >> /home/jmf/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games >> >> >> tipically those commands are not used (not supposed to be used) by >> regular users. >> >> But I guess it won't hurt to add it to the PATH > > Thanks, I just checked, it's included in root PATH, not in user path. > They really think so much to build a system.
There those who encourage using full path for anything you call as user. I lean that way myself, but I'm a bit lazy at times. (Even if you put /sbin first in the search order, there's still the kind of problem where, say, you may be expecting to use /sbin/lvm on a machine where lvm is not installed, but some user has managed to put a rogue binary called lvm in /usr/bin.) >> Joao >> >> >>> Thanks with best regards, (Sorry about that last extra from me because of the CC, Tom.) -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caar43ipuhyakukd00rgkbwks1xcfjmn2t+ks2pavpkcn-ms...@mail.gmail.com