On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:34 -0800 Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/25/2015 10:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > >>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > >> > >>> On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > >>>> 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. > >> > >> +1 > >> > >> The sbin directories are separate from bin for the very reason > >> that binaries in there (which are only usable with elevated > >> privileges) can be excluded from normal users' PATH. > > > > Binaries like blkid, btrfs, getcap, sensors, swapon and various > > tools from net-tools, iputils, wireless-tools... and I really have > > better things to do than list all tools that landed in sbin for > > some fun reason yet work for normal users. > > > > But well, I'm the weird one wanting to be able to check how much > > free space I've got without going through hoops. > > > > Maybe I'm missing something, but `df` is in /bin. Do you use something > else to determine free space? btrfs fi df -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
pgp7BaAMfEfVH.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
