Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | > just cause its in the sbin path does not mean that only root can run > | > it... sbin is for "static-binaries" right?? > | > | No, system binaries. > > These days, maybe. In older times, it did mean static - these binaries > would run before the

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Tommy McNeely
yea ... hehe .. after writing that.. I was looking for an example in Solaris.. and couldn't find it.. but *sbin was in my path :-/ ... we have a "CUE" (common user environment) that pollutes every single "standard" user setup AT SUN ... :) thats where I got my SBIN path the way I wanted it.. bu

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19:31 23 Nov 2002, Martin Stricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Tommy McNeely wrote: | > in /etc/profile, I have had to comment out the "if" and "fi" lines to | > make the "sbin" paths automatically be part of a "users" path.. (like | > for traceroute)... why do I have to do this?? | | Because

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Martin Stricker
Tommy McNeely wrote: > > in /etc/profile, I have had to comment out the "if" and "fi" lines to > make the "sbin" paths automatically be part of a "users" path.. (like > for traceroute)... why do I have to do this?? Because for security issues only root should be able to run them. Some sbin progr

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > /sbin and /usr/sbin have never been part of a user's path in > > traditional Unix and Linux systems. While some distributions may > > possibly put these directories in users path

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote: > > >in /etc/profile, I have had to comment out the "if" and "fi" lines to make > >the "sbin" paths automatically be part of a "users" path.. (like for > >traceroute)... why do I have to do this?? > > > ># P

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote: >Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:32:34 -0700 >From: Tommy McNeely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: sbin and /usr/sbin > > >in /etc/