RE: [Sheflug] another surprisingly basic question

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
>
>    Barrie> Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your path. It should
>    Barrie> be already.
>
>Uh-uh.  user in question is root.  Not a big deal if he puts that in
>the path, IMO, but that should definitely not be default.

 Ah.

I seem to remember that it was once said (not here) that root's path should 
only be /root or /bin, so every else has to a definite action - you have to 
put in paths, as kind of a failsafe against user stupidity.

 That seems a little too much of a pain for me.

 So, rather than having /usr/local/whatever in roots path, is aliasing the 
only real option?
 I guess root doesn't really use that many non /bin or /sbin commands anyway..

 Baz.

Barrie J. Bremner

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