>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
 
> This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've
> seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users.

Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc
for such binaries. :)

(Some remnants of this can still be seen today, like /etc/rmt
installed by app-arch/tar.)

Ulrich