-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 13:41, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges)
But it will make our systems easier to use. So I vote for making it the default. And it breaks 30 years of conventions on Unix systems and would be
Alexey Eremenko wrote: the only Linux distribution doing that by default.
I don't know about you, but I was using Unix (the only and only Unix) 30 years ago, and this issue simply did not exist. There was /bin and /usr/bin and everybody had both in their path, of course.
So it's a little disingenuous to make this claim.
OK, you want to be pedantic, then replace "30 years of Unix" with "10 years of Linux".
Furthermore, we should not let history or tradition stand in the way of improvement. If not having administrative directories in the default path is an impediment for users, then they should be added.
Users too stupid to prepend /sbin or add /sbin:/usr/sbin at the end of PATH shouldn't even touch the binaries located there in my opinion.
I'm agnostic on the actual topic, though, since I never run with a stock PATH or pretty much stock anything...
So that's definitely a no.
Do it on your box if you like to or even add a switch in YaST2 to enable it, but don't make it the default setting.
I really fail to see a down-side, with the possible exception of the fact that there are sometimes multiple commands with the same name. Whois springs to mind. I'm not sure what the one in /sbin does, but it doesn't appear to be at all the same thing that the one in /usr/bin/ does (which is to look up whois directory information).
/usr/sbin:/sbin has to be added at the end of PATH Anyhow, being the only Linux distribution that would do it is a sufficient reason _not_ to do it. I find it surprising people fail to see that. If it's too difficult to do echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin' >> /etc/profile.local then let's ask for adding a setting in YaST2 to do it (through /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig which already has settings for having . in root's PATH and such) but not a default option IMO. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXlmPr3NMWliFcXcRAg0UAJ0b8U+8W3XJVmn7c0bzRUJii+D/hgCdEGs6 +jGLqEyNMbJXK56bCwRdHtM= =/0LE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org