On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Jonathan Arsenault wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 02:35 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > > Anyways, I'm not satisfied. I want to have access to my ifconfig from
> > > normal user.
> > 
> > Yes, lets change the UNIX way for the unsatisfied kid ...
> > 
> > Snip from the FHS.
> > 
> > /sbin : System binaries
> > Purpose
> > Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only commands)
> > are stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin.
> > 
> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES
> 
> So what? That doesn't tell anything about whether it makes sense to have sbin
> in $PATH. I'd vote for appending sbin to regular users' $PATH by default. 
> There
> are many tools in sbin that can be called as user to display at least some
> status information (or even just the help text). The clueless don't use the
> shell anyways and therefore don't care.
> 

So... You subscribe to the MS theory of "security through obscurity"
then? And remember the "clueless" as you call them don't always remain
"clueless".

Ken Schneider

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