On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 05:15:48PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> By default, the current directory (.) is not on your path.  You can add it,
> but it opens up some security holes.  (I can put a program named "cd" in a
> random directory and the next time you go there, it gets executed when you
> try to leave the directory...)

Well, it won't work with cd since it is a shell built but it would
work with ls and many other commands.

regards
Peter Palfrader

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