tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path

[Horst H. von Brand]

Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:52:10PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > I won't say you are whining.. but you are the first systems
> > administrator I have met in several years who hasn't had
> > /usr/sbin:/sbin in their default path. You sure they didn't make you a
> > manager and didn't tell you?

> Heh. Well, I also have had sudo compiled with /sbin and /usr/sbin in its
> secure path, so sudo command (and sudo com[tab] with bash_completion) has
> worked correctly for me for years. And if there's an admin command that I'm
> for some reason running not as root it should a) be moved out of sbin or b)
> I probably at least want to think about it and so typing the path doesn't
> hurt.
> 
> > I think the chance for putting it back is still there.. if someone is
> > willing to do the work on the hard but correct way? I think it was
> > crickets the last couple of times when volunteers were asked for that.
> 
> Sure, I'm willing to work on it.

Thanks!
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