Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:21:41 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh <script>" Message-ID: <200801071321.41458.mike.jeays@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20080107170439.GA39088@wafer.urgle.com> References: <539c60b90801070752l3d0e571cq8f7b1b519e1e808c@mail.gmail.com> <20080107165047.GA12249@aleph.cepheid.org> <20080107170439.GA39088@wafer.urgle.com>
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On January 7, 2008 12:04:39 pm Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: > > The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add > > the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus > > making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious > > security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really > > want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it. > > OTOH, having ~/bin in the path has no security implications at all - > assuming your scripts are OK, of course. I don't see anything especially bad about putting "." as the last item in the PATH on a personal desktop machine. It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk. If my desktop gets hacked, I have worse problems to worry about than this. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca
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