Hi Johannes,

My own feeling is that Ubuntu doesn't distinguish as strictly between
bin and sbin as you would like to see. This is the standard $PATH in the
default /etc/environment:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

Possibly it can be justified by the fact that the root user is not
enabled by default in a fresh Ubuntu install, but you are encouraged to
use sudo when needed. After all, running stuff in sbin as a normal user
don't typically do much harm, right?

Anyway, I think that some experienced developer should better comment on
your objection.

The easiest ways to fix it for yourself are to either not dropping /sbin
from $PATH in ~/.bashrc or prevent ~/.profile from sourcing ~/.bashrc.

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