Hi Ash, On Friday 30 January 2015 10:28:21 Ash Charles wrote: > Why does the PATH variable in the dot.bashrc shipped by the base-files > not include 'sbin' paths? It seems like any interactive user should > be able to call e.g. 'ifconfig' informationally---they should, and > would still be, blocked from calling 'ifconfig eth0 up' > > After looking at the PATH for a generic user on my local Ubuntu > system, I just added a patch to my meta layer to add the following > line to the dot.bashrc: > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > > It seems to work well---users created with the extrauser class pull > this default from the skel. > > As this is security related though, I wanted to ask the question to > make sure I'm not doing something silly, dangerous or otherwise > idiotic.
I think this is largely a distro decision - some distros include the sbin directories to PATH for all users (e.g. Fedora), others reserve that for root only (e.g. Debian) on the assumption that everything in /sbin and /usr/sbin is intended for administration rather than normal users. I guess we are just picking up the default from base-files which comes from Debian. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
