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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Who's in my Directory ?
Message-ID: <151@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 14:52:49 GMT
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gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes:

>I know a student around here with an "ls" shellscript in their home directory,
>which *copied your mailbox* into a subdirectory, so he could read it.
>The moral of this story: have ls aliased to /bin/ls or have /bin before . in
>your $PATH.

	A better approach, if current directory must be supported, is to
search current directory *LAST*. It's a point SA's and security types have
argued for years, but it bears repeating. Users - and vendors - take note!