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
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
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
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
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
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
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote:
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:32:34 -0700
>From: Tommy McNeely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: sbin and /usr/sbin
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>in /etc/
