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 11:18:34 -0800
Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 11/25/2015 10:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > 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.
> >   
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but `df` is in /bin. Do you use something
> else to determine free space?

btrfs fi df

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

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