From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABBA1384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83CAD21C0C1; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECB6221C08A for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [100.42.103.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D98463406F3 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:38:30 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users Message-ID: <20151125183830.GA19269@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151125171011.GA8731@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <5655F183.70102@gentoo.org> <20151125181411.GA19143@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <22101.65138.716590.807534@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22101.65138.716590.807534@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 528aaac7-5cfe-4d82-95c7-72bf1d0d8a46 X-Archives-Hash: 86bd7edf91b68e10447f622721ede36c --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:31:14PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: > =20 > > This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've > > seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users. >=20 > Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc > for such binaries. :) =46rom what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to be able to come up without libraries. As mgorny was talking about earlier, a good chunk of what is in sbin *can* be run by normal users. William --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZWACYACgkQblQW9DDEZThAIACfZm/7Srh7nnrdaiR7wpYrmmFs Ek4An1TweUwM/VDSYUgqajBBVR5LizaW =s8ym -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--