On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:04:41AM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
>
> I think I see two potential solutions to this:
>
> 1) /sbin should be added to every users path on i386-gnu systems. The
> concept of a binary that is completely unusable for regular users is
> almost unheard of for us. (The only few that come to mind is init,
> fdisk, and grub).
fdisk and grub can be used by a user when he/she has permissions
on a device or is using a virtual device image (ie, Bochs/Plex86)
Looking at /sbin, atm i can see dpkg-*, sshd, user{add,del}, etc. Surely in
the future we may have a package manager for users, a shell daemon that
autentificates through /hurd/passwd and doesn't need root priviledges,
unidentified users that can create their own UIDs..
do you mean that someday we eventualy won't need /sbin at all? if that's
the case i don't mind working the problem around by adding /sbin to PATH
note: CCing bug-hurd
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Robert Millan
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free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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