On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Randall R Schulz
On Friday 06 June 2008 11:34, John Andersen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Randall R Schulz
wrote: On Friday 06 June 2008 06:46, Dave Howorth wrote:
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Except '.' isn't part of root's PATH
So? Add it. I do.
People are too paranoid about silly things like root having dot in PATH.
I can never tell when you are kidding Randall. Please tell me you DO understand the risk this entails?
Someone has to break in to lay any trap that could be sprung by root having dot in its PATH.
I don't consider it a big risk for me on my personal-use systems.
Not on a personal use system, perhaps. But all you have to do is be absent mindedly "cd" into some users directory (as root) working on some administrative task and if your path contains a dot (especially as a leading element) you run that user's version of whatever command you might invoke. I'm not sure if there are any scenarios where this affects tasks run as root from cron etc, but its another thing to consider. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org