Bug 504525 - /usr/kerberos/sbin not in user $PATH
Summary: /usr/kerberos/sbin not in user $PATH
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: krb5
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2009-06-07 21:16 UTC by Bernie Innocenti
Modified: 2009-06-08 15:21 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 1.7-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-06-08 15:21:24 UTC
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Description Bernie Innocenti 2009-06-07 21:16:00 UTC
Since Fedora 10, we reintroduced /sbin in non-root
user's path.

For consistency, /etc/profile.d/krb5-workstation.sh should
be modified to unconditionally add /usr/kerberos/sbin in PATH

Better yet, the whole /usr/kerberos hierarchy could be folded
in /usr like was done with /usr/X11R6.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2009-06-08 15:21:24 UTC
We can't fold all of it in because of duplicate filenames in the "bin" directory.

Kerberos's rsh actually falls back to exec()ing /usr/bin/rsh if it fails to establish a connection to the Kerberos rshd, and it doesn't implement the traditional rsh protocol (which requires that the app be setuid) so it's not a direct replacement.   This might change if the conflicting stuff gets split out in 1.8 or later, at which point tools which conflict name-wise could stay where they are while the rest of the krb5 package moves entirely to /usr, but that's not an option yet.

Putting /usr/kerberos/sbin in the path for everyone starting with 1.7-1.


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