low-hanging fruit

[Adam Jackson]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 23:30 -0400, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Colin Walters escribió:
> > On 8/16/07, *Gian Paolo Mureddu* <gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx 
> > <mailto:gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     fine, adding sudo by default doesn't seem like very good idea for me,
> >     especially after my experiences with *buntu systems where the whole
> >     */sbin paths are visible to the regular users, 
> >
> > But what is a "regular" user?  If you have the Vista/OSX desktop spin, 
> > "regular users" won't ever open a terminal (or really, any application 
> > other than a web browser), and so the default path is completely 
> > irrelevant.
> >
> > But as a developer, when I open a terminal I want ifconfig, damn it. 
> Then change your .bashrc to include /sbin in the PATH, don't do it 
> "universally" for all users and much less *enforce* insecure practices. 
> Besides as I said, many of the /sbin commands run as regular users, and 
> just like you I don't see the "burden" to use the full path... 
> /sbin/ifconfig...

You're seriously suggesting that putting /usr/sbin and /sbin in the
default path is insecure?

- ajax