[yocto] Adding 'sbin' to default path
Ash Charles
ashcharles at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 10:28:21 PST 2015
Hi,
Why does the PATH variable in the dot.bashrc shipped by the base-files
not include 'sbin' paths? It seems like any interactive user should
be able to call e.g. 'ifconfig' informationally---they should, and
would still be, blocked from calling 'ifconfig eth0 up'
After looking at the PATH for a generic user on my local Ubuntu
system, I just added a patch to my meta layer to add the following
line to the dot.bashrc:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
It seems to work well---users created with the extrauser class pull
this default from the skel.
As this is security related though, I wanted to ask the question to
make sure I'm not doing something silly, dangerous or otherwise
idiotic.
Thanks,
--Ash
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