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Re: Rationale



scripsit Paul Morgan:
 
> The key in any case is to protect your /usr/local... from anyone
> except root writing to it, and also not to put current directory in
> root's path.  /usr/local... doesn't exist so non-admins can put
> commands in there;  they should be putting them in somewhere in their
> /home or in their apps directories.

Ja, if a user is competent to be building custom binaries, he or she
should be able to add $HOME/bin to $PATH.

-- 
Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus.

Thanasis Kinias
tkinias at asu.edu
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.



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