On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > #define _PATH_DEFPATH "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:." > > This should read "/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin", without the "." > entry. Quite apart from the security implications, teaching new users > always to run their programs with "./foo" will stop them getting very > confused when they call their programs "test" :-).
While we're at it, would it be appropriate to have xdm also set this as the default path? At the moment it does not, instead dumping in such things as /usr/ucb. Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
