Re: Rationale
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:01:35 +0100, John Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a
> usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs).
>
> What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable?
> Running woody I get
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
>
> as a normal user. As root I get
>
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:
> /usr/bin/X11
>
> Thinking security I would expect them the other way around.
> So /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin and /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> Mind you: I do not want this changed, just explained.
>
> Anybody care to enlighten me ;-) ?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan.
>
> "Did anybody know 2.6 is not cat proof?"
The sbins contain sysadmin commands
/sbin: system binaries
/usr/sbin: non-essential standard system binaries
See the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (in the debian-policy package) for
more detail.
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