On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:27:04PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > >Yes but depending on how your path is set it may not simply work. > > NO. > > There ought to be no monkeying EVA with the default PATHs (for root > and other users) created by the authors of Linux and Unix. Period. > (Which is why the wheel group ought to be brought back in Linux.) > > Boy, I am one cranky SOB tonight, huh? But it seems to me that > nobody anymore feels the need to read something "Linux for Dummies" > before piling onto this list (and others!) in order to espouse their > well-considered albeit bonehead opinions.
I find that a bizarre attitude. The point of having a user-settable PATH is to monkey with it on demand. If we didn't want that, it would be inherited from the system default and be immutable. Should users add /usr/sbin and /sbin to their PATHs when they find themselves in need of using those tools often? Sure. Is it common enough to make it the default for new users? No. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150718123142.gq4...@randomstring.org
