Security and $PATH

gwyn%brl-vld at sri-unix.UUCP gwyn%brl-vld at sri-unix.UUCP
Mon Aug 1 06:33:35 AEST 1983


From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at brl-vld>

I firmly believe that all shell scripts should set their own $PATH
before running any commands.  We have almost as many $PATHs here
as we have users, and some folks have programs in their $PATHs
that have the same name as system utilities (yes, we know that
sounds stupid, but there are good and sufficient reasons for it).



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