]] Patrick Matthäi Please respect my Mail-Followup-To.
| On 27.02.2010 11:56, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] | > | > | Well just like many of the comments to 348864, I just hate the | > | "teasers" in section 1 that only root can run. | > | > Whether a tool is root-only or not is orthogonal to whether it's in bin | > or sbin. | > | > (ifconfig is useful for non-root users, but is in sbin. chown is | > effectively root-only, but is in bin.) | | Why is chown useless for users? | | m...@exez:~$ touch test | m...@exez:~$ ls -l test | -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 27. Feb 12:06 test | m...@exez:~$ chown :audio test | m...@exez:~$ ls -l test | -rw-r--r-- 1 me audio 0 27. Feb 12:06 test Ok, fair enough, you can use the part of its functionality that's duplicated by chgrp which is also in bin, while its unique functionality is effectively root-only. (Or look at dpkg-trigger or dpkg-statoverride which are also in bin, ditto for updatedb. I'm sure you're able to find another example.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxyuzwd0....@qurzaw.linpro.no
