On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 02:26:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Since the big conversion of file structs vs who owns what,
The what? I can't even parse that. > which > apparently includes running rc.local as the logged in user and not as > root, Now that is pure nonsense. You're just inventing incorrect explanations for whatever behavior you're seeing that you don't understand. If an /etc/rc.local file exists and has the execute bit turned on, it is executed AS ROOT at BOOT TIME, before there is any "logged in user". > that has hidden the iptables stuff from everybody but root since > its not now in the users $PATH. Now I believe you're talking about the change to "su" in buster. https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes Of course, you might be talking about something else entirely, but your message is so unclear that I can't tell what you mean. If you mean "the iptables command is /sbin/iptables which is not in my PATH by default as a user", well, like... duh? Hasn't that always been the case? iptables is a system administration command, which most end users will never need. If you want to run it as an end user, just make sure /sbin (and probably /usr/sbin) is in your PATH. Not that you can do much with it as an end user. Or explicitly type /sbin/iptables to run it.
