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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