RE: [MLUG] need info

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:

>> 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.

I hadn't thought about security, and it's good to think about it, but why 
would it be easier to hide something in the /usr/local/bin tree than in 
the /usr/local/bin directory?  Mine is full of tons of files.  Oh - is it 
because root has to be careful about keeping all of those subdirectories 
write permissions set to deny all other users from creating files there? 
That is a good point.

Mike
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