Feature changed by: Sascha Peilicke (saschpe) Feature #312272, revision 3 Title: Move /sbin/lsinitrd, /sbin/lsmod, /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lspcmcia to %_bindir openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Developer: 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, ...) + Discussion: + #1: Sascha Peilicke (saschpe) (2011-04-27 09:55:45) + Nonsense, the 'ls' prefix indicates nothing. Furthermore, the user can + happily invoke anything under /sbin (given propper permissions, which + is the case for /sbin/lspci). One minor difference is that /sbin isn't + part of a normal user's $PATH by default. Even more so, important tools + like lsmod, lspci can't reside under /usr/ as they are required at boot + time. + However, moving /sbin/lsinitrd to /bin may make sense. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312272