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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
<snip>
> 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.

I agree. Especially since removing /sbin and /usr/sbin from PATH doesn't 
really
secure anything anyways (the user can always prepend /sbin or /usr/sbin).

-sandalle

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