"Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ----Original Message---- >>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). >
Sure, a totally valid point on Unix or Linux. But on most cygwin installs that I know of, there is only one user, and if that user (me, for instance), did something that stupid, oh well... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
