Or RedHat was able to hear my incessant bitching about it not being in the default path in rhel5 and added it to 6.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Smith, David <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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