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

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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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?

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