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Re: traceroute /usr/bin -> /usr/sbin



On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:54:21AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> [1] apart from openbsd who had had it in their cvs for years before
> someone on debian-devel woke up and noticed all the security madness of
> users having access to it.  And then some proposed to hide it from the
> users, in /usr/sbin, and yet others spoke out that such was not to design
> and that instead, and in the name of Democratic Software and The Rights
> Of Users Who Do Not Understand $PATH, Policy should be applied blindly.

Nice diatribe, although it would have had a much nicer effect if you had used
"spake" instead of "spoke", and thrown in a "thusly" or two.

--Adam

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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