Re: Definitely straying: Was: Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > OK, this is veering off-topic - apologies in advance. From what I > understand, LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains additional places to look for > libraries that aren't in ld.so.conf. Off the original topic maybe but definitely a technical discussion of something important to Debian an

Definitely straying: Was: Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 21:03:38 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Petter Adsen: > > > PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to > > > "/foo/bar:"? > >... > > $ cd /home/evilperson/malicious-programs/ > > $ emaca (oops, I mistyped emacs. Funny, why