> > 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.

Hum.. that assumes that:
1) you have world writable directories (why would you, you know it's bad)
2) someone with bad intentions has access to your machine
3) you have not placed . at the end of $PATH (why would you do that since,
in general, you add to the existing one)

Or am I missing something ?

Thomas.


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