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Re: move kadmin from sbin to bin



On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:41 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:55:55PM +0100, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> 
> > We've received a request to move kadmin from sbin to bin. One
> > argument(*) for this is systems (mostly linux) that configure with
> > prefix set to /usr. On such systems, kadmin may not correspond to
> > what's supposed to be in /usr/sbin. One other agument is that kadmin
> > is a commonly used tool, and having it in bin might make sense.
> 
> Commonly used by whom? If commonly used by regular users, then it should
> go to /usr/bin. If it used only by administrators, then it should remain
> in /usr/sbin (and those administrators should be educated to set their
> PATH).

ifconfig is typcially found in /sbin, yet some technical users care
about it.  I tend to agree with Gabor, but I would defer to a full
reading of the FHS.

Andrew Bartlett

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