Hi Fabio, I think that's a good point. And the same argument can maybe be made for `ipmipower` since it has no "in-band" component. Both are in /usr/sbin mostly b/c everything else there is.
My one concern is that it's been in /usr/sbin for so long, I'm not sure how many people may have hard coded "/usr/sbin/" into scripts. This is far likely with "ipmipower", but perhaps with "ipmiconsole" too. Perhaps a backwards compatibility symlink would be needed? What would you imagine debian doing in this case? Al On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 18:03 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Hi, as reported in debian: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977949 > > The ipmi-console command can be executed by any normal user and > > doesn't > > require "system administrator" (aka "root") permission., IMHO, it > > should > > hence be installed to /usr/bin, and not to /usr/sbin., The fact > > that you > > are accessing an IPMO SoL console of another machine, (of which you > > may > > be the system administrator) doesn't mean you have to be the system > > administrator of the client running ipmi-console. > > is there a reason why it should be kept in sbin instead bin? > thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english >
