On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Rob Browning wrote: > It looks like our installs set up /usr/local/bin to be group staff and > writable by staff, and place /usr/local/(s)bin before /usr/(s)bin in > root's PATH. > > I was a little surprised because I thought we used to exclude the > /usr/local directories from root's path by default, but perhaps we > changed our policies or perhaps my memory is mistaken.
We have had /usr/local directories in the PATH for root at least since 1995 (by looking at the "base" package version 1.1.0-13). > Also, I wonder if our handling of /usr/local isn't a bit inconsistent > since it doesn't look like we include /usr/local/lib in the ld.so > defaults. Yes, I wonder the same.
