On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:58 -0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
ifconfig, ip, fdisk, chkconfig and a lot of the other examples listed
in
this thread, makes perfectly sense to me, but not all.
Why? Most of them are tools
which most ordinary users will never need
nor will they be permitted to let them perform actual actions.
Of cause, sysadmins, developers, specialists and the like will find some
ways to use them as "ordinary users", but ... I really fail why
extending their personal accounts' $PATH is demanding to much for this
audience.
Gradually, I am beginning to think, this thread only takes place,
because this is a developer's list for whom using */sbin tools is their
day-time job :-)
Ralf