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Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user
  • From: Jonathan Arsenault <jonharson@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:46:28 -0400
  • Message-id: <1180053988.4302.1.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 16:05 +0100, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> Basic utilities such as "ifconfig" do not work under user account, but
> only under root.
> 
> This problem doesn't happens in other distros. This is because normal
> user has no /sbin on it's $PATH.
> 
> I think we should add
> export PATH=/sbin;$PATH
> To skeleton user account to fix this.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

I think you need to read about the FHS a bit..

As designed, nothing to see move along.

--
"Why can't humans just reboot instead of sleeping, so much wasted cycles" -Zombie Coder.
Jonathan Arsenault - <jonharson@xxxxxxxxx> - <http://jarpack.net>

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