--- Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:35:32AM +1000, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0100, Jon Kent wrote: > >> Can see your point here, but I prefer to play on the paranoid side > of > >> fence hence my dislike of this. I'm not sure it should be there > by > >> default, rather if you like it you should add it. > > >Inexperienced users might add it to the beginning of PATH, > >so having it at the end by default is a reasonable compromise. > > For that it'd be enough to have a line with dot at the end of the > path in there, commented out, perhaps with a line like > #If you really want the current directory in your path, you should > #at least add it at the end, like this: > #PATH=foo:bar:. > ^^^^^^^ Here copy the path you set by default, w/o . > > >Anyone with enough experience to know why they want it removed > >also has enough experience to remove it themselves. > > "Secure by Default". > > >Regards, > >Andrew Dalgleish > > Kind regards, > > Hannah.
If my suggestion is completely ridiculous, sorry. But, if . is removed from the default path, wouldn't it make sense to add in a comment in afterboot (8)? It does seem to be a deviation from the way that the other *nix's have there defaults. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
