[plug] /sbin and static programs

[Luke Dudney]

I've always been of the understanding that /sbin and /usr/sbin were for 
superuser binaries, as most distros I've seen only have /sbin and 
/usr/sbin in root's path. Normal user accounts don't get those (but it's 
one of the first things I set when I create my account so I can sudo 
commands).

 From Fedora Core 2-test 1's /etc/profile:
# Path manipulation
if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then
        pathmunge /sbin
        pathmunge /usr/sbin
        pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
fi

Cheers
Luke


Mike Holland wrote:

>After reading of Kimberly's woes, I looked in /sbin and was surprised
>to see (ldd /sbin/*) that most programs there were dynamically linked.
>  I _had_ thought the whole point of /sbin was for static binaries. Now it
>seems to be for sysadmin tools. Did I just make a big wrong assumption,
>or has it evolved?
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