> On 30/04/2015 22:35, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > >exactly this PATH issue is what I expect and appreciate here: I do NOT > >expect > >command autocompletion of normal user to get confused by command names that > >are not supposed to even be in user's PATH > > 0700 for root-only binaries would hide them from your shell's > autocompletion.
Which would be lots of stat() system calls. Which is probably fine on a horribly overspecced PC, but not so great on a phone or watch or smart-dust or whatever the next big thing is going to be. Also on paranoid systems /sbin and /usr/sbin can itself be made 0700 or 0750, so that random users can't even work out what admin commands might be there (hide suid exploits) Or /sbin can be deleted/omitted entirely on containers/virtual images where all admin has been done already. So there are very good reasons for keeping the classic/standard layout. I am going continue following up this in another one of your emails - a number of assertions you make should not go unchallenged regards marc _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
