sbin and PATH

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Sep 8 21:41:50 CDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:06:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:52:33AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > 1. Add {,/usr{,/local}}/sbin to the default PATH and be done with it
> > 
> > This seems to be the consensus.  Unfortunately, setting the default path is
> > historically a nightmare in Unix-ish systems.  I think we need to change at
> > least the following:
> > 
> > - /etc/profile
> > - /etc/login.defs
> > - other shell init files (zsh?)
> > - anything else?
> 
> - sshd (compiled in)

I'm content to leave that one alone.  It'll be overridden by the shell by
default.

-- 
 - mdz




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