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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
