Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!widener!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Mysterious security hole Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 13:23:34 GMT References: <91161.131540SCHDAVZ@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> <70@pyuxf.UUCP> <12714@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 15 sam@bsu-cs.UUCP wrote: >Here's a nice and fairly simple way to improve security. >PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/etc >then, to execute something in the local directory usr ./command or a >full path. It took some getting used to, but after about a month I got myself into the pattern of doing this .. and have found it completely impossible to revert back. :) -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone "Ya know, kitten tacos are really better than anything you've ever tasted before!" "Oh, really." -- Rush Limbaugh