I don't understand your point

--- START: Shell output ---

puffy:nard {109} alias foo 'echo bar'
puffy:nard {110} foo
bar
puffy:nard {111} su -
Password:
Terminal type? [screen]    
puffy# foo
foo: Command not found.

--- END: Shell output ---

If a person gets access to manipulate shell startup scripts then your
likely messed up anyway.

On 25/05/05, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> just a question that has been in my mind for several years, as for
> aliases isn't that a bit risky to allow to do something like:
>  alias /usr/bin/su='echo "damn."'
> 
> as PATH and other enviroment values are strictly parsed and stuff
> shouldn't there be something for this too or do i miss something
> important or is this too paranoid..
> 
> 


-- 
Adam Gleave
[ OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005 ]

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