On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:11:48PM +0200, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> On 7.7.2014 14:07, Josef Reidinger wrote:

>> I have general question and I think answer to it should be somewhere
>> written as documented decision.
>>
>> Why we use absolute path to binary? I think proper set PATH in
>> environment should be goal and use common path. Also from security
>> point of view it is quite useless because if PATH is attacked, then
>> also any real root action is attacked.

> Sure, I myself also prefer the shorter way, but I think it was because of 
> security. Let's ask our security expert if this is really the case, or 
> whether it has changed meanwhile.

Bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794084 mentions
some reasons.

Regards,
  Arvin

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