Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@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.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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