I've been following this sporadically, but if the issue is, as I believe it is, whether a regular user should be able to run the programs that we usually save for root, then I say, "have you gone nuts?"  If you want that, go use windows. 

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:40 PM, David Mansfield <fedora@dm.cobite.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> > The last part of your sentence is the key. /sbin and /usr/sbin exist to
> > keep tools out of ordinary users' PATH.
> >
>
> Which made sense when every machine was expected to have an
> administrator to do the complicated stuff for you, but fedora doesn't
> ship one.
>

Or maybe it existed to keep path search times down for users who didn't
need those extra programs there...

Of course, we now have 3123 programs in /usr/bin on my F8 system.

David



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