Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, sc wrote:
On Friday, September 23, 2011 16:02:28 Philipp Thomas wrote:
No. A normal user has '.' in his/her path by default, as you can check by doing 'echo $PATH'. The user root doesn't have '.' in PATH for the reasons I wrote.
i'll take issue with that last -- i was always told it is dangerous and scary to put '.' in path, and have never seen a distribution (in my limited experience) that puts it there by default
==== /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig [SUSE 11.4/64bit] ==== # # Do you want to have "." in root path? This is not recommended, but # many people do prefer it (yes/no). The setting affects all system # users (with uid < 100) # CWD_IN_ROOT_PATH="no" ## Type: yesno ## Default: yes # # Do you want to have "." in the path for normal users? # Defaults to "yes" since this has been the case for years. # CWD_IN_USER_PATH="no" ==== I'm not 100% sure if that's the 11.4 default, as this is an upgrade from 11.1 via 11.2 and that file might have been kept. HTH, -dnh -- "No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person." -- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, p. 193 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org