Joe Sloan wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Joe Sloan wrote:
I have to fix the path to deal with the complaints of users who complain that e.g. "ifconfig" isn't installed, or who maybe have to type a full path for common commands. There's IMHO no reason a normal desktop user shouldn't be able to run many commands which reside in /sbin or /usr/sbin.
Unix has always been like that, too.
It used to be that many admin commands that are now in /sbin or /usr/sbin used to be in /etc. And /etc was never in any user's path except for root's.
I had to edit the paths even more extensively in hpux, solaris or aix - in fact anything in /opt or /usr/local usually wasn't even in root's path
AND THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE!!! That's a security risk. Root is for ADMINISTRATIVE use, not running apps.
- but I expect to spend time fixing things up to make those OSes
Hat to say it, but no, you were possibly introducing security holes into those systems. Very few apps in /opt or /usr/local are ever tested for safety under root's UID.
work correctly.
Joe
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