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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
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Posted: Thu Aug  4 12:48:33 1983
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Organization: Harvard University PSR, Cambridge MA
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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)