For security reasons, please don't do this on your root account. Users can add another ls or commonly used program to their own directory. This program doesn't have the ability to perform some insidious task when run by a user. When root changes into their directory and innocently types ls, their local special ls runs with root privledges. Be careful !
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chanop Silpa-Anan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Chanop Silpa-Anan > Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 2:26 PM > To: Wendell Buckner > Cc: Debian Users Group > Subject: Re: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path > permanently) > > > On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 11:43:42AM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: > > I indeed needed to type "./hello"! I knew it was simple! Now, another > > stupid question for you... How do I add "./" to my path on > startup? Also, > > what is the EASIEST way to find the answers to my question > before bothering > > you guys? I'd like to save my hard questions for you guys(the > list) instead > > of bothering you with simple ones that I should be able to > handle myself. > > My options are the (1) man pages, (2) existing unix books I > have and (3) the > > net. I don't want to buy any more books yet, so I'm hoping the > ones I have > > will suffice for now. Please give me some hints on searching > for the answers > > to this information myself. Thank you! > > > Assume you are using bash, put the following line in ~/.bash_profile > > export PATH=${PATH}:. > > Chanop > -- > ,----------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------. > | Chanop Silpa-Anan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | Australian National University > | > | visit my web site (not yet finished) > | > | http://hilbert.anu.edu.au/~chanop/ > | > | Debian GNU Hurd ICQ uin 11366301 > | > `----------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------' > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
