> Jokes aside, this completely ignores the fact that there is a reason for /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin and /etc and the sbin directories. A lot of it has to do

> Jokes aside, this completely ignores the fact that there is a reason for /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin and /etc and the sbin directories. A lot of it has to do with permissions. If you've ever been a member of a multi-user server you might understand. I've administered multi-user servers and I can only guess at what you mean. Like... I've seen distros that default non-admin users to not having sbin directories in their PATH, but even then it's not like that's a security thing, it just makes your path a little cleaner. What security benefit do you see to the different directories? (In fairness, I can see non-security reasons to split things up - the traditional reason is that /bin is local, /usr is on NFS and shared between every machine in the lab, and /usr/local is non-packaged software built from source. But none of that is a security argument.)