. in $path

[shaginaw at NEUMANN.SQUIBB.COM]

Richard replied directly to me when (I believe) he wanted to reply to the
list...
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
     Our SGI machines are running IRIX 3.2.  We see the same problem
reported by Claude Cantin.  All system cshrc files have no '.'
specified in the path.  Nevertheless, machines loaded with 3.2 shipped
before late February have '.' in their $path (where does it come from?)
while 3.2 shipped since late February must have '.' added by the user.

     I'd like to know:

(1) Why leaving out '.' closes a security breach that couldn't be closed
    another way.

(2) Where do earlier versions of 3.2 set a path WITH '.'; it's NOT in
    a system cshrc file.

SGI couldn't help with these when I called it in.

                                                           -- Rich
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