Joe Sloan wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Joe Sloan wrote:
in fact anything in /opt or /usr/local usually wasn't even in root's
path
I should hope not! root should have a strictly limited path to limit
security exploits.
I'm not sure the lack of finish characteristic of the old school unices
provides the security benefits you perceive.
In any event the question becomes, is it lack of polish, or a carefully
calculated attempt to limit the damage done by a bad superuser? The fact
that not just roots path, but everybodys path seems a bit anemic on the
old school unices, strongly hints at the former.
No, it's the latter.
IMHO the general user's path should certainly include commonly used
utilities located in non-world-writable directories.
You have to understand, Joe, that anything in /opt is
non-standard, BY DEFINITION. IF it was standard, then
it would be in /usr or /usr/bin or /usr/X11/bin or
something similar.
top is an "edge" case... some Unix vendors include it in
their software distributions (HP, for instance), and some
don't.
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