Hi! On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:35:32AM +1000, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: >On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0100, Jon Kent wrote: >> Can see your point here, but I prefer to play on the paranoid side of >> fence hence my dislike of this. I'm not sure it should be there by >> default, rather if you like it you should add it.
>Inexperienced users might add it to the beginning of PATH, >so having it at the end by default is a reasonable compromise. For that it'd be enough to have a line with dot at the end of the path in there, commented out, perhaps with a line like #If you really want the current directory in your path, you should #at least add it at the end, like this: #PATH=foo:bar:. ^^^^^^^ Here copy the path you set by default, w/o . >Anyone with enough experience to know why they want it removed >also has enough experience to remove it themselves. "Secure by Default". >Regards, >Andrew Dalgleish Kind regards, Hannah.