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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 15 September 2005 18:35
> Hi,
>
> '.' is not in the PATH due to security reasons on most business setups.
> I do not know if this is due to security against external threads or the
> user himself...
Both, kind of.
Imagine what would happen if
1) The root user has '.' in $PATH
2) The root user wants to see what files are in /tmp, so issues the
commands
cd /tmp
ls
3) Ten minutes earlier, some other user ran
echo "rm -rf / &" >/tmp/ls ; chmod a+x /tmp/ls
Not having '.' in your $PATH means that when you run ls, you always get
the real ls. (Assuming you haven't given world write perms to /bin).
cheers,
DaveK
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