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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Secure PATH
Message-ID: <5991@alice.uUCp>
Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 09:40:56 EDT
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> In my .profile, I have eliminated the beginning : in my path. If a
> program to be executed is not in a directory indicated in my PATH,
> I execute it by "./". This is not a BIG hurdle but it is more
> secure.

If you put the current directory at the end of the search path,
the hassle is much less and the advantage is almost as great.