The first use case that comes to mind, is people using RHEL or CentOS as their desktop OS. They'll probably need to mount disks and create file systems (think flash drives, maybe CDs and DVDs). The relevant commands are all in /sbin.
David Smith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bayer Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Why are the sbin directories in the path for normal users on RHEL6/CentOS 6? We exclusively run either Redhat or Centos, and are slowly migrating to release 6. This question was raised because a user on one of our CentOS 6 systems had a problem: I got a question from a user today, as to why a particular command didn't work. When I looked into it, I realized that he shouldn't have been able to run it at all because the command was in /sbin. Then I found that even for normal users, the three sbin directories (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) are in their path. Anyone know why that is so? I don't see anything in those directories which aren't system binaries or something used by an adminiatrator aka root user. Thanks JBB _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
