Re: GLIBC_2.4

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:54:54 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

[...]

> If $(HOME)/bin were first in your $PATH, then a malicious user or
> app that has write access to your account, then they could put
> sabotaged versions of common apps into $(HOME)/bin and do all sorts
> of nasty things to you.
> 
> But then, I just noticed that somehow $(HOME)/bin is the first entry
> in *my* $PATH!!!  Must find out how that happened...

~/.bash_profile does this by default nowadays:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi

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