On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > In general it's safer to fully specify root's $PATH rather than trust > what was inherited from the parent.
And this policy changes what? The parents PATH would be inherited anyhow, wouldn't it? So we're doing what to it that reduces security? > If we could come up with a single canonical root path that was adequate > for all packages that might be a good thing. But even there you'd have > to be very careful of edge conditions. And that's why each script should set what it needs, in addition to what it inherits. It inherits what it inherits now anyhow -- so why should that be any problem (it's certainly not a change) for this? -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (410)358-9800 Project Genesis http://www.torah.org/
