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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (JIM BURNS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Preventing Idle in telnet, security, and bg.
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Date: 29 Sep 90 22:27:39 GMT
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in article <+CN%|A*@rpi.edu>, kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) says:

> Yes, this is a security problem.  What you can do to get rid of
> annoyances like that is to put '.' in the end of your path.  'ls' will
> be found in its normal place intead of ./ls, that happens when you have
> '.' in the beginning of your path.

Or, since most people have an alias for 'ls' anyway for their favorite
options, make sure it explicitly references /bin/ls. (Sh users can use
functions instead, if your version supports them.)

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