/sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path ?! What about Sudo ?

1999-12-29 Thread Olivier Lemaire
Greetings :) I saw in the DWN : Should /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path so they can easily run traceroute and other similar programs? It seems that many people [13]make this change when installing Debian. Since the [14]FHS says that users should not have to place any of the sbin

Re: /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path ?! What about Sudo ?

1999-12-29 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:58:29AM +0800, Olivier Lemaire wrote: Greetings :) Hi I saw in the DWN : Should /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path so they can easily run traceroute [...] [..] Why don't we make a sudo package included in the base install ? It may be my fault but I

Re: /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path ?! What about Sudo ?

1999-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:52:27AM +0100, Olivier Lemaire wrote: I effectively disagree the idea of symlinks. Why don't we make a sudo package included in the base install ? I mean a debian-customised package who should be integrated in the base system . Eventually, like shadows passwords are

Re: /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path ?! What about Sudo ?

1999-12-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:46:39AM +0800, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: [...] - e) our recommended solution wold be to install traceroute in bin (i already repored that as an error half year ago) BUT f) our recommended solution would break scripts which use a hardwired /usr/sbin to traceroute