On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > How ?
> >
> If the current directory is in the PATH variable before the standard
> paths, someone could place a trojaned version of a program into a world
> writable directory. Whenever someone ran (or think they ran) a system
> utility from that directory, they would instead be running the fake.

Yes that's a good reason to not put . at the start of your path so just
put it at the end huh!


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