Hi!
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:35:32AM +1000, Andrew Dalgleish wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0100, Jon Kent wrote:
>> Can see your point here, but I prefer to play on the paranoid side of
>> fence hence my dislike of this. I'm not sure it should be there by
>> default, rather if you like it you should add it.
>Inexperienced users might add it to the beginning of PATH,
>so having it at the end by default is a reasonable compromise.
For that it'd be enough to have a line with dot at the end of the
path in there, commented out, perhaps with a line like
#If you really want the current directory in your path, you should
#at least add it at the end, like this:
#PATH=foo:bar:.
^^^^^^^ Here copy the path you set by default, w/o .
>Anyone with enough experience to know why they want it removed
>also has enough experience to remove it themselves.
"Secure by Default".
>Regards,
>Andrew Dalgleish
Kind regards,
Hannah.
