-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 13:41, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Alexey Eremenko wrote: >>> Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because >>> you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) >>> >>> But it will make our systems easier to use. So I vote for making it >>> the default. >> And it breaks 30 years of conventions on Unix systems and would be >> the only Linux distribution doing that by default. > > I don't know about you, but I was using Unix (the only and only Unix) 30 > years ago, and this issue simply did not exist. There was /bin > and /usr/bin and everybody had both in their path, of course. > > So it's a little disingenuous to make this claim.
OK, you want to be pedantic, then replace "30 years of Unix" with "10 years of Linux". > Furthermore, we should not let history or tradition stand in the way of > improvement. If not having administrative directories in the default > path is an impediment for users, then they should be added. Users too stupid to prepend /sbin or add /sbin:/usr/sbin at the end of PATH shouldn't even touch the binaries located there in my opinion. > I'm agnostic on the actual topic, though, since I never run with a stock > PATH or pretty much stock anything... > >> So that's definitely a no. >> >> Do it on your box if you like to or even add a switch in YaST2 to >> enable it, but don't make it the default setting. > > I really fail to see a down-side, with the possible exception of the > fact that there are sometimes multiple commands with the same name. > Whois springs to mind. I'm not sure what the one in /sbin does, but it > doesn't appear to be at all the same thing that the one in /usr/bin/ > does (which is to look up whois directory information). /usr/sbin:/sbin has to be added at the end of PATH Anyhow, being the only Linux distribution that would do it is a sufficient reason _not_ to do it. I find it surprising people fail to see that. If it's too difficult to do echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin' >> /etc/profile.local then let's ask for adding a setting in YaST2 to do it (through /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig which already has settings for having . in root's PATH and such) but not a default option IMO. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXlmPr3NMWliFcXcRAg0UAJ0b8U+8W3XJVmn7c0bzRUJii+D/hgCdEGs6 +jGLqEyNMbJXK56bCwRdHtM= =/0LE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
