On 13 June 2018 at 17:34, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 06/13/2018 02:28 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> directories needed to be at the end of the path. It was also linked to >> the reason not to put . in the path. > > > I thought the reason to not put . in the path was because you could be > looking in someone else's folder and they could have put an executable with > the same name as a usual system one in there. (Or a misspelling of one.) > Generally more applicable to an admin than a user though.
I was going more about that the . in path was a substitution attack and that was as far as I was going to take the analogy. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JGV23E5SAEMGO4B5Y3IICDU6FPQFPIN3/ -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJQZYWIXZPKV6XWUE2IM4X4P2WXNWRD3/
