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Subject: [suse-security] /etc/profile security question
From: Mark B Withers (goooberone.net)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 09:29:17 CST

Fellow S.u.S.E. users:

I remember reading somewhere that it was poor or not a good practice
to have the current directory '.' in the $PATH environment variable.

In /etc/profile, it has the following statement that adds it in:

test "$UID" = 0 || PATH="$PATH:." *unless you're 'root'

Is this wise or should I keep it there so as not to disturb the
surrounding code?

Mark

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