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 9FBC01384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:05:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EBAA21C0BC; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BEE621C08A for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id tAPI5DHg029712 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id tAPI5Drs027126; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id tAPI5DCj027122; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Message-ID: <22101.63577.329581.418529@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users In-Reply-To: <5655F183.70102@gentoo.org> References: <20151125171011.GA8731@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <5655F183.70102@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller 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; boundary="pgp+signed+Dfy0ydL/9/1BPxz"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 74fbbddd-5833-4e46-83ce-b5b08a996521 X-Archives-Hash: 8c0a3b750a3a4d73584770e66e3b0faa This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+Dfy0ydL/9/1BPxz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> 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. Users who for whatever reason want these directories in their PATH can include them in their local settings, but as the general default it makes no sense. Ulrich --pgp+signed+Dfy0ydL/9/1BPxz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWVfhYAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJzUqgH/RyyPGAf6gk+2qEYj2xJ332T m2wobrQWHgGiYn7zfzz9C0A7a2Ge1x63bnKpDrvOZhWJB/C9RwACYR+sVPGz/d46 2iopwqe7oNj/j3PnmWYuTe116q+0Lg/NoSTgmeo61hPC9lmcvE91ONJn4ptRP7Pz Chb+xO0aAhJeYIk1tAwbK3V/QWcCIWLe2lMnUxVoLnQzJiijxRhtZlk88ZhCra/N 8nh3Lo4kO0JC9osU71iNj21mCiojB98Mpd+1cEg0wi6sKC7X2bupZuSiDRGc+Y/G /AXClFK/qwrnuOq7Hq1G861RBg7UkPgEWczCgy+bLcWDFwQqWEa6wX7hTbHiZNk= =Gwjc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+Dfy0ydL/9/1BPxz--