On 2018-08-07, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Curt (2018-08-07): >> I thought his point might be that in typing the full path at least you >> know you're getting '/bin/su' and not some other 'su' that a malevolent >> individual might have created in your home directory after prepending HOME >> to your path, for example (in that malevolent person's effort to elevate >> himself to superuser status).=20 > > Indeed. It protects you from semi-competent crackers. With incompetent > ones, is is not needed, with competent ones it is useless. You judge if > it is worth the hassle.
The hassle seems minimal, whereas the category of the semi-competent appears to be fairly well-populated. Of course, I'm a touch typist, so YMMV. > Regards, > -- Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. --Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
