Re: of bash and ...sbin/
Chad Miller (cmiller@surfsouth.com) wrote:
>
> I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the
> superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of
> some programs in 'sbin' directories.
>
> For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in
> /usr/sbin). Other (questionable) ones might be /usr/sbin/fbset or
> /usr/sbin/lpc .
not to mention ifconfig! having these utils in the non-root path is hardly a
security risk. if anything, this is just to keep down helpdesk calls like
"what does MAKEDEV do?" personally, since many of these commands print out
usefull, non-security-risking data, i don't see any good reason to keep em
out.
>
> Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that "only the superuser executes
> stuff in sbin," or that "these programs should be in sbin?" Essentially,
> by question boils down to "To which packages should I apply a bug
> report -- bash or the others?"
>
> This discussion might belong in debian-policy, depending on your answer.
>
> - chad
>
> ref'd...
> traceroute-nanog: /usr/sbin/traceroute
> lprng: /usr/sbin/lpc
> fbset: /usr/sbin/fbset
>
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