From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 27 20:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0226B37B542; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA33744; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:17:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:17:18 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.0: default path when su'd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Robert Watson wrote: > > > path, we should consider moving a few of the things in /sbin and /usr/sbin > > into /bin and /usr/bin respectively. For example, md5 is sufficiently > > useful for all users that having it in the default user path would be a > > good idea. Ping is also a common ``where's that'' among my users, etc. > > Neither of these requires privilege, and both are useful for generic > > users. There are probably a couple of others that fall into that > > category. > > ping, md5 and nslookup are the ones I'm always having to retype when I use > a machine with the default user path. I've suggested md5 be moved in the > past, but perhaps right now isn't the best time to do this. apm and zzz are a couple more for the list in /usr/sbin that is potentially useful for more than just root. vidcontrol probably also falls in that category--things that make sense for console users who may not be administrators. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message