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Article #623830Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:11
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:11
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On 2018-06-06, Grant Taylor <gta...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 06/06/2018 07:13 AM, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote: > >> Having come from the "simpler" DOS world of total control, with maybe >> just a path to c:\utils, I found it a puzzle that there were so many >> places (yet only those ones!) to put executables under linux. > > You can put executables in a LOT of places. You just need to choose > somewhere that's already in the PATH environment variable, or modify it > to your liking. > > I personally have ~/bin first in my path. Isn't that considered a security risk? If a bad guy creates a piece of malware and calls it "ls", it's much easier to slip it into ~/bin than into /bin. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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