Feature changed by: Dr. Werner Fink (WernerFink) Feature #312272, revision 5 Title: Move /sbin/lsinitrd, /sbin/lsmod, /sbin/lspci, /sbin/lspcmcia to %_bindir - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Dr. Werner Fink (wernerfink) + reject date: 2011-04-27 10:11:39 + reject reason: Invalid request Priority Requester: Mandatory - Info Provider: (Novell) 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 $PATH by default. Even more so, important tools like lsmod, lspci can't reside under /usr/ as they are required at boot time. However, moving /sbin/lsinitrd to /bin may make sense. + #2: Dr. Werner Fink (wernerfink) (2011-04-27 10:10:12) + Moving system tools used at boot from /sbin/ to /usr/bin/, that is that + /usr/ could be an own partition mounted ro and a network share, is a + NOGO. Beside this normal users should not be enforced to use those + commands. Interested users may add the line + PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH + to their ~/.profile -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312272