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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:37:29PM -0500, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:49 +0100, Arjan Bouter wrote:
> 
> > This also is not a bug. This is a security measure. Root's profile 
> > can/should be
> > different from that of normal users. For example root can have /sbin in 
> > $PATH
> > which normal users shouldn't need and to minimize the risk of a 
> > non-functional
> > root account things like bash-completion and other stuff which installs in
> > /etc/profile.d shouldn't be in root's profile. By installing a normal 
> > file 
> > instead of a link you make sure lazy admins don't use /etc/profile 
> > instead of
> > their own.
> 
> If we are considering the security risk, shouldn't the /sbin directories
> be removed from /etc/profile?  In which case we'd also probably want to
> move 'gaze' to /usr/bin or something like that.

I dont think removing /sbin and /usr/sbin from /etc/profile is a security
enhancement. One of the things I like about Source Mage is we DONT do that.

-Andrew

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