On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0600, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 3:08 PM, Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
> > (Nit, I just noticed, and I have this right, (1m) should *not* be in the
> > list for /usr/bin, right?)
> 
> Sigh.  You would think so (I did).  Do this with your legacy man(1).
> 
> cd /usr/bin
> man -l * 2>/dev/null | grep 1m
> 
> Based upon what I see in there, I wonder why /usr/sbin even exists.
> It seems as though all it does is hide ping(1M) from those that aren't
> worthy.  Surely the typical person doesn't run savecore or wracct.

I think the situation with /usr/sbin is a bit confused and confusing.
Many things in /usr/sbin probably belong in /usr/bin.  I think one
criterion for deciding whether something belongs in /usr/bin or
/usr/sbin should be how much damage someone with the right RBAC profiles
might do when executing some admin command in a regular shell, or in a
profile shell.  Certainly all the *stat(1M) commands belong in /usr/bin.

Nico
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