Hi,
On 12/2/24 18:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
This is not correct. Whether any of /usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/bin or /sbin
share a partition or not has no relationship to whether a user can
invoke a command, or whether that path is searched for unqualified
command names (determined by $PATH).
FWIW, I do think that even with user namespaces weakening the
distinction between admin and non-admin users, having things you
normally need root privileges for not take part in tab completion is
still useful to people who use text terminals.
I understand that in the shiny future there are only services that
should be started by making an RPC call to a supervisory daemon (so not
even root should have them in the path), and tools to make RPC calls
(that are potentially useful to any user), but that shiny future has not
arrived yet, and in the meantime, all it does is annoy console users.
Simon
