Hi, On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, John Chajecki wrote:
I suspected that there may be a good reason why scripts should not be run from root, after all I guess a lot of damage can be done - hence the security precautions. However, I could not find any info in the Howto's about this. Thanks for this suggestion. I will give it a try.
Good luck.
I'm only trying to run a ppp-on script so that shouldn't cause me too much trouble should it?
No, if you know, what the script is doing, it should be safe. The omission of the current directory in the search path is just for the case, that (for example) some malicious user has placed an evil program named "ls" in some directory. As soon as root enters this directory and types "ls", guess what happens... If you know, who is working on your system (e.g. at home) you can modify the following entry in /etc/rc.config: CWD_IN_ROOT_PATH="yes". Please rerun SuSEConfig afterwards. Now root also can run files from the current directory without "./" in front of it. Best wishes, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer S.u.S.E. GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Gebhardtstrasse 2 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de</A">http://www.suse.de</A</A>> 90762 Fuerth, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e