Hey, Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 14:08 +0200 schrieb Ondřej Vašík: > Stefan Assmann wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering why there's no $HOME/bin directory and $HOME/bin not > > mentioned in the $PATH variable. Any particular reason not to have that > > by default? > > $HOME/bin is not on every system and the other default directories in > default PATH are(at least on the most of systems ;) ). However, some > Linux distros do add something as: > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > fi Adding something like this raises security concerns, as this opens doors for malicious software. E.g. some application could but a binary named "bash" in ~/bin, which would be run before /bin/bash. So, if at all, let's use $PATH:$HOME/PATH - fabian > as default - so this dir gets added automatically when does exist. > I'm generally +1 for changing the default that way - as it would not > change anything for users without that directory. > > Greetings, > Ondřej Vašík > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
