On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:36:03PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH > > for all users. > > > > This sounds strange to me, if it should be executable by all users it > likely shouldn't be in sbin in the first place but in bin. In any > case; I don't see any good reason to change the traditional behavior > of sbin only being in path for root. This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users.
I wanted to open the discussion, because the fact that we remove sbin from paths was cited on the bug I referred to as a reason I should keep the patch that the prefix team applied to dev-lang/go. My opinion is prefix should either fix their paths (include /sbin) even though they are running unprivileged, or it would be better even if they found a way to do the same test that did not require access to sbin and contributed that to Go upstream. William
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