Jake McHenry wrote:
> What is such a security error with what I said? I've never done what I said, but
> about the same thing. I have root's login disabled, to I have to su to root. I
> have the . at the end of my user's path, and when I su to root, it keeps my
> paths, including the ., so I always can run the program in the current
> directory. I only su to root when I need to, don't use it for everything, hence
> why I did it this way. I've always done this. Can someone please explain to me
> why it is such a security problem? And sorry to the person that I told this to,
> if I realized this was a mistake, I wouldn't have told him to do that.
I'd like to hear a good answer on this one, too. Although I do the
"./blah" thing for messing around with stuff in the current directory,
I'm not sure what the big deal is. Is it just the possibility of
running something un-intended as root that's the big danger here?
Don't leave us dangling...
Steve
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