RE: [MLUG] need info

["Pottinger, Hardy J." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> We need a shell that will use a recursive path for binaries.  
> In otherwords, you could use the usual /bin /usr/bin and 
> whatever, but the shell would find all binary files within 
> all *subdirectories* of those directories.  That would be nice.

This would be a moderate security risk. I say moderate because you'd
still need write permissions to the /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin trees,
but something could definitely be hidden in there. This would be similar
to adding ./ to your path, only not quite as dangerous.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that you might want to consider the
risk, as compared to any possible benefit.

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