/sbin

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/sbin The /sbin directory holds different kind of system binaries (programs) an administrator/ privileged user can use, in CLI or in the GUI environment

Example of some of the system binaries can be

  • chpasswd

  • mkfs

  • openvpn

System binaries can often only be executed by privileged users, normal users wouldn't have permission to succesfully execute any of the binaries

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