Hi William, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> writes:
> here is a link to an old, but brief discussion about this. > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2fc1f62c7cf225787fe52f4dace7368c > > I think we have talked about this several other times, but not done > anything about it. > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:17:59PM +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> >> Pardon my ignorance, but does that mean you are essentially relying on >> file system features/permissions and security settings to enforce >> correct use of system tools?! Or is this just to make sudo/etc commands >> 'more convenient' ?! > > The basic problem is that what goes in *bin vs *sbin is quite arbitrary > and the best way to fix it is to make all of the *bin and *sbin > directories accessible to all users. > > You can't rely on a path to separate system-only programs from > programs that users might want to run, and some programs can be run by > users to look around but not change things. > > Here is one non-gentoo source discussing this. > > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html > > Even if we don't adopt the usr merge in Gentoo Linux as default, removing > *sbin > from the path doesn't make sense. If there references are useful for users to understand why this decision and potential breakage is made, it might be a good idea to append the links to the news item. Yours, Benda
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