Re: user $PATH problem

[Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx>]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> Adding it to ~/.bash_profile seems to allow it to survive the 
> pathmunge'ing being done in /etc/profile, so I'm A) confused as to why 
> it does, and B) in any event, is there a good reason to dis-allow 
> access to /usr/local/sbin for the normal user?
>  
I think it is just a matter of minimizing the number of commands that an 
ordinary user sees.  Most of what's in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and 
/usr/local/sbin requires root privileges to do anything useful anyway.  
That said, I agree that /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin should be on 
amanda's path, and I've also modified my local systems so that amanda's 
~/.profile sets PATH to /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin.

Stephen Walton