On Tuesday 18 July 2006 02:55, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* James Knott
[07-17-06 19:24]: Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Interesting command. man fdisk works as user but the command is only recognized by root or being logged in with su.
Given that good practice dictates you don't run as root, if you don't have to, why does that surprise you? Why should you have to be logged in as root, to read those man pages?
guess as usual, an incorrect statement from the 4th:
semi-correct. /sbin is not by default in $PATH of a regular user, which is why it's not "recognized" unless you give the full path to it. But there's no point, since you're not allowed to do anything with it as a regular user (I hope no one sets permissions on the hard drive device nodes so regular users can access them) -- Ut supra post festum sunt obscura -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com