On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Jonathan Arsenault wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 02:35 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Anyways, I'm not satisfied. I want to have access to my ifconfig from normal user.
Yes, lets change the UNIX way for the unsatisfied kid ...
Snip from the FHS.
/sbin : System binaries Purpose Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only commands) are stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES
So what? That doesn't tell anything about whether it makes sense to have sbin in $PATH. I'd vote for appending sbin to regular users' $PATH by default. There are many tools in sbin that can be called as user to display at least some status information (or even just the help text). The clueless don't use the shell anyways and therefore don't care.
So... You subscribe to the MS theory of "security through obscurity" then? And remember the "clueless" as you call them don't always remain "clueless". Ken Schneider --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org