On Friday 12 December 2003 4:01 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> On Friday 12 December 2003 03:43 pm, Kyle Faber said:
> ~ So what would happen?  If ./ was in the root user's path, it would
> execute ~ this script instead of the traditional ls, thereby deleting
> everything in ~ root's directory, then printing the appropriate ls
> information.  Root could ~ possibly be none the wiser.
>
> It took a couple of minutes to absorb what you said there but it sank i=
n.
> Were you suppossed to put the ./ (as in the ./ls example)  when UNIX wa=
s
> originally written?
>

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directory, the code contained in /bin/ is assumed safe and /bin is contai=
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in the default executable path for users.

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