Security and PATH
Douglas
mrd at wjh12.UUCP
Fri Aug 5 02:48:33 AEST 1983
One possibility for those who are paranoid about "accidentally"
running non-standard versions of commands when they are in other
users' directories, but are too lazy to type "./" to run commands
in their own directories, would be to have the shell check the
ownership of files before running them - if the command was found
in a directory in PATH which does not start with "/", then if it
is not owned by the user who is trying to run it, give an error
(forcing him to type "./" to run it).
Mike Douglas (wjh12!mrd)
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