Am 11. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bill Jonas so:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:25:10PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > Do you mean s/not// on that sentence?
>
> I believe he was asking, "Why is having the sbin directories in your
> path not a security risk?"  I'll field this one. ;-)
>
> The bin/sbin distinction is based on the theory that the bin directories
> should contain software that is useful for everyone, and the sbin
> directories should contain software that is useful only for
> administrators.  In practice, most of the software in the sbin
> directories is useful for troubleshooting and is therefore useful for
> most everyone, assuming the user is familiar with the operation of the
> software.

There's that. There's also the theory that everything in /sbin should be
staticly compiled and that /sbin should contain all of the tools you need t=
o
recover the system should it get hosed.

I wish we had staticly compiled executables in /sbin.

ciao,

der.hans
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