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Feature added by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr)

Feature #312272, revision 1
Title: Move /sbin/lsinitrd, /sbin/lsmod, /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lspcmcia to 
%_bindir 
  
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority 
    Requester: Mandatory 
 
Requested by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org 
 
Description: 
lsinitrd, lsmod, lspci, lspcmcia are located in /sbin and so only root can 
access them. The 'ls' prefix indicates that these programs only list some 
information which should be accessible by all users. lsusb is in %_bindir 
(=/usr/bin). If you were consequently lsusb also would have to be in /sbin or 
/usr/sbin ... 
 
Business case (Partner benefit): 
openSUSE.org: There absolutely is not any sense for having programs just 
providing information in /sbin. How do you want to help people if you need for 
example lspci's output and then people complain: "Absolute path to 'lspci' is 
'/sbin/lspci', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root)." Can 
you give me root's password? (security, security, security, ...) 
  
 
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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/312272