On Wed April 23 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
The tools in /sbin are divided into two categories:
a) Those that are useful for non-root users, mostly in a
query/reporting capacity. Like ifconfig, lsmod, and fdisk (for -l),
lspci, lsusb, ...
b) Those that are not useful without root privileges. Like modprobe,
rmmod, insmod, fsck, swapoff, ...
Who does really know which tools belong to which category? E.g. I use modprobe
very often as a non root user to get a list of possible modules:
modprobe -l
works fine as a normal user.
Regards,
Till