On 08/02/18 22:13, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users
>> may run from sbin. Moving these commands often causes problems for
>> packages that either hard code absolute paths, or detect paths at
>> build time. I think it would be less disruptive to add sbin to PATH
>> than it would be to try and "fix" all the packages that install
>> commands in the wrong place.
> There are no reasons to remove the *sbin directories from PATH; I know
> of no other distros that do this.
>
> William
>
Pardon my ignorance, but does that mean you are essentially relying on
file system features/permissions and security settings to enforce
correct use of system tools?! Or is this just to make sudo/etc commands
'more convenient' ?!

MJE

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