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#! rnews 1006 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: compiled program won't run. Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 05:24:53 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 6 Message-ID: <30ADDEA5.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <480g7u$t2e@news.csus.edu> <dhawkDHvzsq.F5r@netcom.com> <Pine.SUN.3.90.951117125554.19452B-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> If the `.' is at the very end of the path, and you have all possible directories in your path for any command name you might ever want to type as root, then it's not a security hole. Otherwise, just think about it for a moment. -- Jordan