On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:31:14PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: > > > This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've > > seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users. > > Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc > for such binaries. :)
From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to be able to come up without libraries. As mgorny was talking about earlier, a good chunk of what is in sbin *can* be run by normal users. William
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