"To be honest, if a malicious person is able to put an ls program into ~/bin of a user they are also able to change their ~/.profile and put ~/bin first in PATH again, so it gets no additional security, at all."
Thinking again you're right, didn't think of that option when I decided to forward it, sorry for the noise. Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

