On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:07:59AM +0900, Benda Xu wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> William Hubbs writes:
>
> > The second change is that baselayout is taking ownership of most of the
> > directories it creates. This includes all directories in / and /usr
> > excluding /lib* and /usr/lib*. Once we drop
Hi William,
William Hubbs writes:
> The second change is that baselayout is taking ownership of most of the
> directories it creates. This includes all directories in / and /usr
> excluding /lib* and /usr/lib*. Once we drop support for SYMLINK_LIB,
> baselayout will take ownership of /lib* and /
Hi William,
William Hubbs writes:
> here is a link to an old, but brief discussion about this.
>
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2fc1f62c7cf225787fe52f4dace7368c
>
> I think we have talked about this several other times, but not done
> anything about it.
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018
William Hubbs wrote:
> The first change is that ROOTPATH is no longer set. This means all of
> the *sbin directories will be added to the default path for all users
> instead of just the root user.
Maybe add a sentence about why this is changing or even neccessary,
to avoid perception of weakened
W dniu sob, 10.02.2018 o godzinie 10∶49 +, użytkownik Mike Auty
napisał:
> On 08/02/18 20:55, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users
> > may run from sbin.
>
> Hiya,
>
> I'm not really for or against the idea, but whenever the justification
On 08/02/18 20:55, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users
> may run from sbin.
Hiya,
I'm not really for or against the idea, but whenever the justification
for something is "there are plenty of examples" it's really helpful to
have a number of the
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 02/08/2018 06:12 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>>
>> There is no bug here. The problem, as I said before in this thread, is
>> that what goes in *sbin is arbitrary, and as Rich said, if you are
>> relying on the path to prevent a non-root use
On 02/08/2018 06:12 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> There is no bug here. The problem, as I said before in this thread, is
> that what goes in *sbin is arbitrary, and as Rich said, if you are
> relying on the path to prevent a non-root user from running something
> that only root should run, you are
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:49:52PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 02/08/2018 05:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > There are actually quite a few binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin which
> > can be useful for non-root users. Sure, we could go through there
> > carefully and move stuff to /bin b
On 02/08/2018 05:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> There are actually quite a few binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin which
> can be useful for non-root users. Sure, we could go through there
> carefully and move stuff to /bin but honestly doing what everybody
> else does and just sticking /sbin in the
On 08/02/18 22:33, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> here is a link to an old, but brief discussion about this.
>
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2fc1f62c7cf225787fe52f4dace7368c
>
> I think we have talked about this several other times, but not done
> anything about it.
>
> On Thu,
All,
here is a link to an old, but brief discussion about this.
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2fc1f62c7cf225787fe52f4dace7368c
I think we have talked about this several other times, but not done
anything about it.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:17:59PM +, M. J. Everitt wrote:
>
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:17 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote:
>
>
> On 08/02/18 22:13, William Hubbs wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>> However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users
>>> may run from sbin. Moving these commands often causes prob
On 02/08/2018 05:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> There are no reasons to remove the *sbin directories from PATH; I know
> of no other distros that do this.
The first reason that comes to mind is that when I type something like
p to remind me of a command name, I don't need to see 50 programs
that
On 08/02/18 22:13, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users
>> may run from sbin. Moving these commands often causes problems for
>> packages that either hard code absolute paths, or
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >> Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this
> >> officially discussed somewhere that I missed?
> >
> >>
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this
>> officially discussed somewhere that I missed?
>
>> I actually support the change, but other people should be given the
>> chan
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this
> officially discussed somewhere that I missed?
> I actually support the change, but other people should be given the
> chance to complain about it on the record.
It contradicts the FHS
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> here is a proposed newsitem for baselayout 2.5.
>
> Let me know what you think, including whether these are newsitem-worthy
> or not.
Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this
officially discussed somewhere that
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