Re: putting . in path

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 03:44 AM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I read that it can be dangerous to put your working directory (.) in PATH,
(security), although some would consider that paranoid.  If it is
dangerous,I figure
>the danger would be in having it in the root account.. How bad is the
problem if
>you put it in a user account?

You seem to understand the issues:  how bad would it be if someone
maliciously placed ls in their home dir which created a .rhosts or delete
their files or ... ?
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