Jonathan Arsenault wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > I'd vote for appending sbin to regular users' $PATH by default. There > > are many tools in sbin that can be called as user to display at least some > > status information (or even just the help text). The clueless don't use the > > shell anyways and therefore don't care. > > Many tool usable by user in there, like what ? ifconfig and iwlist are > the exception and not the rule, ip that a user should use instead of > deprecated ifconfig is symlinked to /bin already. route, traceroute, nfsstat, alsactl, lpc, mkfs ... I'm sure you'll find dozens more. > Look at the 270'or so binary in /sbin and the 330'or so in /usr/sbin > (/opt/gnome/sbin and /opt/kde3/sbin even) and tell me that they belong > into a user path, if you think about answering yes to that then explain > to me why they needed to be separated in the first place from normal > bin. Lets just stuff hem all in a giant directory and be done with > it ... The question was not whether the file system layout as we know it still makes sense but whether non-root users would benefit from quick access to sbin binaries by default. Changing the default[1] PATH is the probably the most simple way to achieve that if you don't want touch individual packages and add extra symlinks. cu Ludwig [1] which means you'd be free to change it back -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE Labs V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
