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Re: Procmail output errors

2000-01-25 15:34:43
"Colin J. Raven" <cjraven(_at_)ddf-lab(_dot_)com> writes:
Looking at your $PATH below....
As I recall, it's inadvisable to put the users own path at the beginning
of the $PATH. There are some possible security issues involved.
Can anyone verify this?

Nope.  It's a bad idea to put your current directory "." into your path
at the beginning (and some of us think it's a bad idea to include it at
all), but your personal bin directory should be no less secure.  In a
hetrogenous environment you have to be careful if you want to preempt
a system program to do so in a platform generic fashion, but that's not
a security issue.


Philip Guenther

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