on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:01:35PM +0100, John Smith (netman1@home.nl) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a
> usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs).
>
> What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable?
> Running woody I get
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
>
> as a normal user. As root I get
>
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:
> /usr/bin/X11
>
> Thinking security I would expect them the other way around.
Then change it.
If you're not allowing world write to /usr/local/(s)bin, you should be
OK. The usual justification is that your locally defined commands
superscede system commands.
Peace.
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