This article was first written in December 2003 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/96)
Some UNIX administrators find it handy to add «.» in the
PATH (and some even put it at the beginning of the
PATH). Why is this
bad? On UNIX, everything is made so that you don't have to do it. Anything not doing so can be considered buggy, and can be fixed easily.
Imagine someone has access to write a file in a otherwise harmless directory, like /tmp for example. Image now that that someone wants to do harm.
