It's just as to write './' in front of every command. I think it helps me remember that having the current directory in the path isn't always true for most unix/linux environments. =) Beverly On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > The root shell DOES NOT include "./". Very deliberately. > > Why? > > Because you /don't/ want to be in some smart-aleck user's directory, > run 'cd' or some other innocuous process, and have a program run that > sets - say - resets root's password to something the user knows then > runs cd with your argument. > > Which hasn't happened to me - but is just something I thought of off > the top of my head. :) > > So if you're root, you have to /explicitly/ say 'yes I really want > to run this program that happens to be in this directory'. > > Other users are presumed to not control anything vital, and to be > unlikely to be hanging around in someone else's directories. :) --------------------------------------------------------------- Beverly Guillermo [[mezanin]] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.com/bguill/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18004037 ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
