On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:45:56PM -0400, rpjday wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > Non sequiter. /sbin contains, by convention, binaries connected with > > system administration. That is *not* the same as "binaries that may > > only be executed by root". > > > > /sbin is not on non-root users' paths, by default, but that doesn't > > necessarily mean they can't execute stuff that lives there. Certainly, > > on my Debian Woody and Sid boxes here, the contents of /sbin > > are -rwxr-xr-x ;- the main thing stopping non-root users using some of > > them is a lack of privileges, not a lack of execute rights to the > > files. > > > > Specifically, arp lives in /usr/sbin on my boxen, and whilst that's > > not on my normal user's path, and the files are owned by root.root, I > > can quite happily: > > > > /usr/sbin/arp -a > > > > as any user. Similarly, a non-privileged user has no problems running > > /sbin/route. > > i would go one step further and suggest that regular users might > consider adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to their search paths. there's > nothing wrong with that, and it allows users to run the same commands > they would be allowed to run if they typed out the names in full: > "route" instead of "/sbin/route", for instance.
The users who know what they're doing have done that already ;-) And there is no reason to include this path for the users that don't have a clue ;-) Ramin > rday
