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
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