On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:20 -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:06 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries (static-bin).
That's not what the FHS states
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard>. /bin is
for "Essential command binaries that need to be available in single user
mode; for all users (e.g., cat, ls, cp).", and /sbin is for "Essential
system binaries (e.g., init, route, ifup).", and similarly for /bin
and /sbin that resides in /usr, but with the added "Non-essential" bit.
The key, IMO, is that the ${prefix}/bin is meant for all users, where
${prefix}/sbin is not (restricted access).
.( o ).
Does anyone else find the idea of a 'normal' user (i.e not sysadmin)
running single user mode without /usr mounted as an amusing concept?
I suppose there are some systems that run only in single user mode, but
whether any non-root users have ever logged in there would be suprising.
Even during the boot process before going multi-user, we are running as
UID 0, AFAIK.
David