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Subject: root PATH missing /sbin and /usr/sbin
From: dcbw () redhat ! com (Dan Williams)
Date: 2007-04-27 13:55:01
Message-ID: 1177682101.21025.1.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 07:58 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:58 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:28:30PM -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
> > > David,
> > >
> > > > I am in the Developer console.....
> > > >
> > > > iwconfig: command not found
> > > > ifconfig: command not found
> > >
> > > But for now, can you try to login as root first and provide the full
> > > path to iwconfig?
> > > $ su -
> > > # /sbin/iwconfig
> >
> > Is there any good reason why we don't have /usr/sbin and /sbin in PATH?
> >
> > On Debian and Ubuntu systems I don't get this problem. When I su to
> > root PATH is sane. On OLPC and Fedora systems this doesn't work.
Sorry, I read the subject wrong.
Root's path has /sbin and /usr/sbin. It depends on how you're getting
to root.
su <--- keeps your environment
su - <--- gives you root's environment (or whoever you su to)
logging in as root <--- gives you root's environment
Dan
> ISTR that it was because non-admin users (ie, not root or a sysadmin)
> shouldn't need binaries in /sbin or /usr/sbin. And that we shouldn't
> put binaries that need to be run by non-privileged users in /sbin
> or /usr/sbin. Looking at stuff there, most of it requires root privs to
> be useful anyway.
>
> This is an upstream Fedora thing and not OLPC-specific; you should
> probably ask there as well and see what other Fedora people say. I
> don't really feel strongly one way or the other.
>
> Dan
>
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