Re: [MiNT] Re: Bootstrapping Sparemint

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de>]

Hello!

> > - A reasonable path for mint.cnf would be for me:
> > 
> > 	setenv PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin  
> 
> That path is asking for trouble, in a multi-user environment,
> because it is exported. This allows users to find and possibly
> execute system-critical binaries in the /sbin family. I prefer:

It doesn't matter if /sbin is in $PATH or not for that. A user can always
execute any binary from any place if he have the permissions for that.

So it's better to check the permissions from the files under /sbin and
correct them if they are wrong.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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