Well, many years ago (not 20, but still quite a few) I came to the conclusion that as a regular user I want . in my PATH, but only in the last position. It is a matter of convenience, and the security problem associated with it is limited as long as I am wearing my unpriviledged user hat.
I never add . to my root user PATH, because I am paranoid. This is the compromise I found suitable for me, and it has worked very well for me for all these years. I am not a newbie, of course, and it does not take much effort not to call executables "test" or use "tar" as an abbreviation for "targil" ;-). Of course, the system tar will be invoked, and most likely fail since the command-line arguments will match its expectations only by a rather improbable coincidence. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
