[systemd-devel] sbin vs bin

Marc-Antoine Perennou Marc-Antoine at Perennou.com
Wed Jun 2 00:33:35 PDT 2010


Systemd can also be used as a session manager, which is run as a simple
user.

On 2 June 2010 09:13, Steve Herber <herber at thing.com> wrote:

> I just noticed this change:
>
> 8 hours build-sys: move systemd from /sbin to /bin since it should be used
> by normal ...        Lennart Poettering      1       -5/+2
>
> When would a non-root user even invoke the systemd executable?
> For testing an expert might run systemd as a non-root user but
> then they can just add /sbin to their path, an action they should
> be capable of if they are playing with systemd.  Init is in /sbin
> and anyone that knows that would expect systemd to be there also.
>
> Thanks,
>
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