[wplug] Setting PATH

[Luquilla Hughes]

Yes from what I have read those would both work but for everything I have 
read it always comes with a huge security warning not to do that.

If you are a single user system it may not be so critical, however if you 
change your path enviroment then you change what programs get run.
So for example you have a Bash script that presents the processes in color 
called ps in your current dir. By placing the current dirrectory before /bin 
or /sbin it will run that instead of the system ps.
The security concern comes in when a file gets placed into you current 
directory, like a simple shell script named ls, and it consists of "rm -r 
~/*" which you don't want but it was the first ls found in your path.
hope that makes sense and helps. if not maybe somebody will clarify.


>From: Robert Dale <rdale at wplug.org>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: "'wplug at wplug.org'" <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Setting PATH
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:15:25 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Weber, Larry A wrote:
>
> > I am using Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 and the bash shell.  Is there a file I 
>can
> > change so that I can permanently set my search path to include the 
>current
> > directory?
>
>~/.bashrc
>
>--
>Robert Dale
>
>		Vive le wplug!
>
>
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