On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 04:01:50PM +0000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Well, many years ago (not 20, but still quite a few) I came to the > conclusion that as a regular user I want . in my PATH, but only in the > last position. It is a matter of convenience, and the security problem > associated with it is limited as long as I am wearing my unpriviledged > user hat. > > I never add . to my root user PATH, because I am paranoid. > > This is the compromise I found suitable for me, and it has worked very > well for me for all these years. I am not a newbie, of course, and it > does not take much effort not to call executables "test" or use "tar" > as an abbreviation for "targil" ;-). Of course, the system tar will be > invoked, and most likely fail since the command-line arguments will > match its expectations only by a rather improbable coincidence.
Fine for you, but what would you recommend for a new user (a learning programmer, not a naive user)? BTW, today was my last day as a sysadmin at tau. So gradually I will stop thinking about these matters. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
