Re: Why isn't . in the path? (Was: nmbd problems...)

[_azure <azure@gh0st.net>]

Of course.  Merely clarifying. ;)

_azure


On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:41:01AM -0800, Scott Roy Atwood wrote:
> * _azure <azure@gh0st.net> [010126 14:12]:
> > 
> > On the other hand, . is usually listed last when it's in the path.  As 
> > long as the original programs are still in place, it should never *get*
> > to check /usr/local or . for the stock binaries.
> 
> But a clever hacker would use binaries named "sl" or "mr", which are
> common misspellings of common commands.  These would *not* be picked up
> by stock binaries in the rest of your path, but *would* be picked up by
> "." if you were in the directory that contained them.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Atwood
> atwood@cs.stanford.edu
>