Curt (2018-08-07): > I thought his point might be that in typing the full path at least you > know you're getting '/bin/su' and not some other 'su' that a malevolent > individual might have created in your home directory after prepending HOME > to your path, for example (in that malevolent person's effort to elevate > himself to superuser status). Indeed. It protects you from semi-competent crackers. With incompetent ones, is is not needed, with competent ones it is useless. You judge if it is worth the hassle. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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