On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 04:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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
You mean like:
/bin/dumpkeys
/bin/ed
/bin/login
/usr/bin/xcutsel
/usr/bin/xdpr
/usr/bin/zzuf
[ ... etc. ... ]
nor will they be permitted to let them perform actual actions.
Ahh, so more like:
/bin/redhat_lsb_init
/bin/unicode_start
/bin/ypdomainname
/usr/bin/webalizer
/usr/bin/xenU_workflow.py
[ ... etc. ... ]
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.
Yeh, I remember using SunOS and setting my own path up based on switch
statements based on hostname ... and I'd like to remember it that way,
as a distant memory.
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 :-)
Yes, it's a help to those who care and doesn't harm those who don't ...
and this is a negative, why?
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James Antill <james(a)fedoraproject.com>
Fedora