From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 8:30:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7892215107 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA86547; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:30:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA00424; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:29:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199904271529.JAA00424@harmony.village.org> To: sobomax@altavista.net Subject: Re: Confusing location of md5 program Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:11:08 +0300." <3725D38C.2153F5B8@altavista.net> References: <3725D38C.2153F5B8@altavista.net> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:29:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3725D38C.2153F5B8@altavista.net> Maxim Sobolev writes: : Does anybody can explain why md5 located in /sbin directory? As far as I : know in /sbin only program which intended for super-user (like mount(8)) : or have some features only for super-user (like ping(8)) are located. : md5 in my opinion doesn't fall into any of this categories. : Furthermore,  corresponding man page (md5(1)) states "FreeBSD General : Commands Manual"... At a guess, it is there to ensure that when you boot single user, and have only /, you can still verify the integrety of other files... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message