Incorrect order of /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in path

[Björn Persson]

Reindl Harald wrote:
>Am 04.05.2014 18:54, schrieb Björn Persson:
>> Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> no, in general /usr/sbin is supposed to come before /usr/bin
>>> and any software assuming the opposite has a bug
>>>
>>> Am 04.05.2014 18:11, schrieb Ankur Sinha:
>>>> /usr/bin is supposed to come before /usr/sbin etc.
>> 
>> I don't know of any kind of standard that specifies either. Does
>> Posix specify this for example? Does anyone have a link?
>
>normally no software should break independent of that
>order because it finds the binary anyways in the path
>and it is unlikely in a clean setup that the same
>binary exists in both

Right, and in the absence of a specified order in PATH it's a bug if
anything depends on *any* particular order.

>however, the semantics of /usr/sbin is to contain superuser
>binaries which should not be overriden because a binary
>with the same name exists in /usr/bin

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard says only that the sbin directories
are for programs that only system administrators use, and justifies them
with "a good partition between binaries that everyone uses and ones that
are primarily used for administration tasks". The part about not
overriding binaries is your own, personal opinion.

-- 
Björn Persson
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