Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjh12.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!mrd From: mrd@wjh12.UUCP (Douglas) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Security and PATH Message-ID: <291@wjh12.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Aug-83 12:48:33 EDT Article-I.D.: wjh12.291 Posted: Thu Aug 4 12:48:33 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Aug-83 17:12:10 EDT Organization: Harvard University PSR, Cambridge MA Lines: 10 One possibility for those who are paranoid about "accidentally" running non-standard versions of commands when they are in other users' directories, but are too lazy to type "./" to run commands in their own directories, would be to have the shell check the ownership of files before running them - if the command was found in a directory in PATH which does not start with "/", then if it is not owned by the user who is trying to run it, give an error (forcing him to type "./" to run it). Mike Douglas (wjh12!mrd)