On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 07:24:54PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > I do not see any reason why a user would put something in ~/bin that > > would mask something in /usr/bin except to actually mask the binary. It > > is the same with other user configuration, anyone expects ~/.ssh/config > > to override /etc/ssh/ssh_config instead of the other way round. > > It could happen by accident. A user might put a program in ~/bin that > happens to have the same name as one in /usr/bin that the user is > unaware of, and it might break other programs which call that command > without a full pathname. Editing ~/.ssh/config affects only SSH, and > isn't likely to break something unrelated. > > That's one reason why I'm not convinced that this change is a good > idea. It obviously has nothing to do with security though. It's a > matter of safety, which is different from security.
In your opinion, how does the user act nowadays when something in /usr/bin masks their tool that they installed in ~/bin? I would assume that they will change the path, since installing the tool there is what they wanted. Making it hard for users to achieve their goals usually does not stop them. Also a tool with a same name in /usr/bin might also break another user's tool that expects the user version to be available in the PATH. I do not see how this would be better. And it might also happen with aliases or functions that users would configure in ~/.bashrc. I know that bash-completion using the _* namespace broke a lot of shortcuts that I used (and I still think it is sad that this easy to use prefix (at least on a QWERT* keyboard) was made unusable, even though these are identifiers nobody needs to type). Kind regards Till _______________________________________________ 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/3JRVHYDX2HQ7NRIAZBLP54RMTYJQDQUV/
