Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages
* Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> [241202 12:20]:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/2/24 18:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> FWIW, I do think that even with user namespaces weakening the distinction
> between admin and non-admin users, having things you normally need root
> privileges for not take part in tab completion is still useful to people who
> use text terminals.
>
> I understand that in the shiny future there are only services that should be
> started by making an RPC call to a supervisory daemon (so not even root
> should have them in the path), and tools to make RPC calls (that are
> potentially useful to any user), but that shiny future has not arrived yet,
> and in the meantime, all it does is annoy console users.
In the meantime I've added /usr/sbin to my PATH, so I get working
tab completion in my terminals for my daily work.
Good luck,
Chris
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