Who's in my Directory ?

[Ray Shwake]

gpvos at cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes:

>I know a student around here with an "ls" shellscript in their home directory,
>which *copied your mailbox* into a subdirectory, so he could read it.
>The moral of this story: have ls aliased to /bin/ls or have /bin before . in
>your $PATH.

	A better approach, if current directory must be supported, is to
search current directory *LAST*. It's a point SA's and security types have
argued for years, but it bears repeating. Users - and vendors - take note!