Andy Saxena wrote: >On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > >>I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports: >> >>~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games >> >> >> > >Putting ~/bin first in your $PATH is a security risk. Consider that if >your user account got hacked into, somebody could place a modified top, >ls, less executable in your ~/bin directory. These executables could be >modified to perform tasks extraneous to what the legitimate executables >do, like mailing your personal files to the cracker. > >-Andy > > > > Good point; thanks for pointing it out. I'll change it on my systems by putting it at the end of the path.
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