Re: Can I change group and permissions on the messages file?

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:16:00 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

That page has generally good advice, but any danger from not using
full paths probably means your system is already insecure, and
that little precaution is not going to do much to help the
situation.

There should be no untrusted directories in your PATH. If there
are, remove them. If the standard system directories, /bin,
/usr/bin, etc., cannot be trusted you have much bigger problems.

I understand and completely agree with your view.

The advice can/might help if you happen to
have /usr stuff nfs mounted in a large environment.
Sometimes the local sysadmin has no choice but to to work with the
corporate network admins.
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