home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh <script>"

[Mike Jeays]

On January 7, 2008 12:04:39 pm Mike Bristow wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote:
> > The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add
> > the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus
> > making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious
> > security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really
> > want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it.
>
> OTOH, having ~/bin in the path has no security implications at all -
> assuming your scripts are OK, of course.

I don't see anything especially bad about putting "." as the last item in the 
PATH on a personal desktop machine.  It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk.  
If my desktop gets hacked, I have worse problems to worry about than this.



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Mike Jeays
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