Comment 11 for bug 1435492

Hi Johannes,

My own feeling is that Ubuntu doesn't distinguish as strictly between bin and sbin as you would like to see. This is the standard $PATH in the default /etc/environment:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

Possibly it can be justified by the fact that the root user is not enabled by default in a fresh Ubuntu install, but you are encouraged to use sudo when needed. After all, running stuff in sbin as a normal user don't typically do much harm, right?

Anyway, I think that some experienced developer should better comment on your objection.

The easiest ways to fix it for yourself are to either not dropping /sbin from $PATH in ~/.bashrc or prevent ~/.profile from sourcing ~/.bashrc.