Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages
On Mon Dec 2, 2024 at 1:38 AM GMT, kindusmith wrote:
1. First, root and ordinary users will not be able to use commands in
each other's directories, which will greatly increase their security
This is not correct. Whether any of /usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/bin or /sbin
share a partition or not has no relationship to whether a user can
invoke a command, or whether that path is searched for unqualified
command names (determined by $PATH).
2. If /usr is partitioned separately instead of a unified / partition,
ordinary users can also use commands in /usr/bin, which increases
convenience
This is also incorrect for the same reasons as explained above.
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