On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:26:17AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The things that we do put in /sbin, for the same reasons, we > expect that the average user will not use them and might be confused > by encountering them. For example, mkfs and fsck and so forth are in > /sbin. Anyone can use these, on a file or on a device they have > permissions for. It's not that we expect only root to use these, but > that we expect anyone who wanted to use them to probably know enough > about the system to be root (or at least enough more than the average > user that they can handle putting /sbin in their path).
There is some inconsistency here. ulysses:~# which mkisofs /usr/bin/mkisofs ulysses:~# which mke2fs /sbin/mke2fs And note that one can burn any filesystem on a CD (if you are allowed to access the CD writer). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
