Hi, On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Joseph Beaman wrote:
Thanks--that works beautifully. Now my next question is WHY do you have to do that?
Security. Imagine some user putting some shell script into /tmp with the name "ls" and the contents "rm -rf /*". When root executes "ls" in /tmp it could erase your whole system. Some people argue that you can add the cwd at the end of the path. But that is still dangerous. Some user could create the above mentioned file with the name "sl" and just wait for root to mis-spell the "ls" command. If you are the only user on that system, you might want to change the behaviour. Simply start YaST and go to "System administration" / "Security settings". Hubert - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e