On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:55:09AM -0400, Peter Olson wrote:
> > On May 3, 2016 at 11:43 PM Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Interesting, I thought /sbin was historically for statically
> > linked executables needed at boot time, or for system
> > recovery.
>
> The /sbin and /usr/sbin are analogous to /bin and /usr/sbin but they contain
> programs for administrative purposes such as adduser which require privileges
> and are not needed by user logins or might not be expected for ordinary user
> access.
>
> On some distros ifconfig is in one of these and isn't visible to the user, even
> though it might be useful.
>

This is just a mishap. You might include /sbin in your PATH and
ifconfig automagically becomes available to you. Not all the
executables in /sbin and /usr/sbin require root privilege to run...

PDSCE

KatolaZ

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