On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-11-08 07:06, Jonathan Bayer wrote: >> We exclusively run either Redhat or Centos, and are slowly migrating to >> release 6. [snip] >> Then I found that even for normal users, the three sbin directories >> (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) are in their path. > > They have been there in most UNIXes and Linux distros. I'd ask the other > opposite question: Why have some Linux distros not been including /sbin and > /usr/sbin?
As some have said, putting it in PATH lets you use sudo without specifying the absolute path of the binary. Plus, there are utilities like ifconfig and route that provide useful information even when run as a non-root user. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ~ G.K. Chesterton, author (1874-1936) _______________________________________________ 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/
