* Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> [241202 12:20]: > Hi, > > On 12/2/24 18:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > This is not correct. Whether any of /usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/bin or /sbin > > share a partition or not has no relationship to whether a user can > > invoke a command, or whether that path is searched for unqualified > > command names (determined by $PATH). > > FWIW, I do think that even with user namespaces weakening the distinction > between admin and non-admin users, having things you normally need root > privileges for not take part in tab completion is still useful to people who > use text terminals. > > I understand that in the shiny future there are only services that should be > started by making an RPC call to a supervisory daemon (so not even root > should have them in the path), and tools to make RPC calls (that are > potentially useful to any user), but that shiny future has not arrived yet, > and in the meantime, all it does is annoy console users.
In the meantime I've added /usr/sbin to my PATH, so I get working tab completion in my terminals for my daily work. Good luck, Chris
