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Article #623831Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:22
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:22
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes: >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. For root, sure. For joe user? Not so much. If someone can access my bin directory, all bets are already off.
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