On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:11 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 00:01 -0400, Braden McDaniel a écrit :
> Can someone explain (or point to) the rationale appending these to PATH
> rather than prepending them? I would have expected user binaries to
> supersede system ones.
Security. You can do all kinds of mischief by overriding an (audited)
system command with a user-level command (even appending is IMHO
borderline dangerous till the usual infection/attack vectors, MUAs &
browsers have not been taught to triple-check and flag anything going
there)
Oh. So, user account-level security for user accounts that have already
been compromised.
Right. Say no more.
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Braden McDaniel <braden(a)endoframe.com>