"grep" not working
Net Llama!
netllama
Thu May 17 09:47:40 PDT 2007
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Bandel wrote:
>>> Here's why I personally _never_ allow anyone (especially root) to have
>>> "." in the PATH, and any personal directories ($HOME, $HOME/bin) last.
>>>
>>
>> How do you prevent someone from running "export PATH=$PATH:." ?
>
> Linux/Unix is a system for adults, not children, so there's no
> way to protect people from their own stupidity. You may be able
> to cure ignorance, but you can't fix stupid.
Exactly, which is why I don't understand how David claims thath he
prevents it.
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