Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-06-25 Thread Iain Rae
On 25/06/18 10:20, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:21:46AM +0100, Iain Rae wrote: On 22/06/18 20:56, Till Maas wrote: 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

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-06-24 Thread Iain Rae
On 22/06/18 20:56, Till Maas wrote: 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

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-04 Thread Iain Rae
On 04/05/18 09:50, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 03/05/18 12:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: By convention additions to the path come LAST in priority, because of well known privilege escalation attack approaches (the incautious admin sits down at a 'trapped' nominally sick workstation, and fails to

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-03 Thread Iain Rae
On 03/05/18 09:39, Tomas Orsava wrote: I just wanted to say that many users would not need sudo access at all if they were able to install software to their home directory in a way that it works out of the box. oh yes, that would be the ideal situation, and if ~/.login/bin is so

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-02 Thread Iain Rae
On 02/05/18 18:05, Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:34:51 PM CEST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> This leads to the problem outlined in >> https://xkcd.com/1200/ where the user account is more precious than >> having root. > Wait. If you have full root access, you have

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-02 Thread Iain Rae
On 02/05/18 17:50, Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:25:58 PM CEST Iain Rae wrote: >> if they've got sudo privs to install software in the system area as root >> then any malicious program is going to emulate su/sudo in which case >> you're rooted in both

Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH

2018-05-02 Thread Iain Rae
o back in the '90s Kamil ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Iain Rae - Computing Officer | iainr @ inf. ed. ac. uk School of Informatics, Univ of Edi