On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:09:38 -0500, James Larkby-Lahet proclaimed...

> This is not a security issue, if that what you are thinking, because
> the paths are searched in order. all the normal binary directories are
> listed first, so no one can slip you a trojaned 'ls' or whatever in the
> current directory. Completely removing '.' from your path is an
> overkill solution. and annoying :-)

Paranoid, yes. Annoying? I'd beg to differ. I've seen several
sysadmin's accidentally screw up the order and put "." further up
the PATH chain. How about adding just a little commented mark
educating users to leave it at the end?

I'll quit beating a dead horse now either way. Just wasn't sure if
it was something overlooked