Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:32:03 -0600 From: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> To: jan.muenther@nruns.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scripts Message-ID: <20040216203203.GB6888@therub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040216172752.GA2407@ergo.nruns.com> References: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A940136C5@VIP10-WIN2K> <200402161708.i1GH8Qw19410@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20040216172752.GA2407@ergo.nruns.com>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:27:52PM +0100, jan.muenther@nruns.com wrote: > I just wanted to say quickly that I'd recommend *not* ever taking '.' into > your path - when someone wants you to execute something and places it into a > directory where both have write rights and names it like the binary you're > supposed to call, it's going to get executed first. There's a lot of things that you shouldn't do that people do every day. To minimize risk, if you insist on having a '.' in your path, the most important thing is to put it at the _end_ of your path. This way, when you type a command, it will hopefully find the real command first. If it's at the beginning of your path, and you're on a multi-user system, you're just asking for trouble. dan
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