Hi Fabio, Actually thinking about this more, could this argument be made for all FreeIPMI tools that do out of band communication? On my local redhat system, I notice they put ipmitool in /usr/bin.
Just wanting to know your opinion on this. Al On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 09:50 -0800, Al Chu wrote: > Hi Fabio, > > I think that's a good point. And the same argument can maybe be made > for `ipmipower` since it has no "in-band" component. Both are in > /usr/sbin mostly b/c everything else there is. > > My one concern is that it's been in /usr/sbin for so long, I'm not > sure > how many people may have hard coded "/usr/sbin/" into scripts. This > is > far likely with "ipmipower", but perhaps with "ipmiconsole" too. > > Perhaps a backwards compatibility symlink would be needed? > > What would you imagine debian doing in this case? > > Al > > On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 18:03 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > > Hi, as reported in debian: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977949 > > > The ipmi-console command can be executed by any normal user and > > > doesn't > > > require "system administrator" (aka "root") permission., IMHO, it > > > should > > > hence be installed to /usr/bin, and not to /usr/sbin., The fact > > > that you > > > are accessing an IPMO SoL console of another machine, (of which > > > you > > > may > > > be the system administrator) doesn't mean you have to be the > > > system > > > administrator of the client running ipmi-console. > > > > is there a reason why it should be kept in sbin instead bin? > > thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english > > > >
