> Agreed (mostly). It is very important that Debian have things in the same > place as other Linux distros, and other common Unix flavours. Otherwise, > scripts from commercial software and other stuff that isn't always as > portable as it should be will be spuriously broken on Debian. Lets not not > go out of our way to lay traps for vendors who we are hoping will support > Debian GNU/*. > > It seems to me that binary locations are one of those things that Unix is > stuck with, even though it would be nice if we could change them. What > should be done is to add /usr/sbin and /sbin to the PATH of ordinary mortal > users. There is no security issue here, since they could always add it > themselves if they actively wanted to cause harm. If you were setting up > restricted-shell accounts, you would need to change PATH anyway, since bash > is in the standard path, which kind of defeats the restricted shell, except > as an anti-cluelessness measure :)
You have both, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in your PATH. You broke your setup so all the following comments you do doesn't change A THING to you. You can't discuss about where to put each thing if you don't use the split bin/sbin system... =/
