Hi Marc,

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 07:12:23PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:04:08AM -0600, Maximo Pech wrote:
> > 
> > They mandate that on all shell scripts we have to use absolute paths for
> > every single command.
> 
> That does provide ways less security than setting the PATH to a system-only
> path at the beginning of your script.

Can you elaborate on this?  From a security point of view only, this
looks to me as a draw.  If you consider the portability issues then
sure, setting PATH is better.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen

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