On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 12:30:52PM +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote: >>>> 1. First, root and ordinary users will not be able to use commands in each >>>> other's directories, which will greatly increase their security >>> >>> (typical level of argumentation) >>> >> The ability to isolate users from commands that they can’t use anyway is a >> nice touch, but the kernel and the utilities should handle the first line, >> IMHO. > > My point is that it makes no sense, as unfortunately is typical for these > kinds of complaints.
It does make sense, even if your extremely short replies indicate that you don't want to see it. It's quite simple, and has nothing to do with security. Tab-completion becomes less and less useful as the number of items in the PATH grows. Keeping "admin" vs. "non-admin" things out of the PATH is really the one "clean" break you can have to improve the performance of tab-completion without hobbling the system. (It doens't help root, but root needs to go carefully anyway and shouldn't be a daily occurence.) If that's not something of value to you, then it "won't make sense"... from your perspective. Security has nothing to do with it. No user who is a security threat will be thwarted by an inability to specify /sbin manually (or update $PATH). --J
