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

> 
> About /sbin being in the default PATH, most linux users are keen to try out
> stuff. Is there a good reason to put sbin in their path to point to 
> executables
> which their not supposed/allowed to run anyway?
> 

I do not think everything in /sbin is not intended to be run by normal
users, if that was the case then their permissions would be set as
such. Furthermore...

I run commands in /sbin as normal users *a lot*

I *like* being able to run ifconfig as a normal user without having to
try very hard

I *hate* working on redhat machines as a normal user because when I
type ifconfig I get command not found and have to manually type out
/sbin/ifconfig.

I dont think it changes security on the machine /at all/ to remove /sbin
from the path.

But this is all just my very pragmatic, biased, and highly cynical opinion.

-Andrew


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