On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:35:27 +0100 "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/28/2011 01:22 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:00:28 +0100 > > "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It is nevertheless an *added* avenue to do some phishing. And for > > what benefit? > > No, it's not; at the very most it's making something very slightly > less noticeable but even that is a weak and flawed argument. It is one additional avenue. Hence "added". > > If your security relies on spotting that a malicious user has placed > a rogue binary in ~/bin you're already hosed. My security does not rely on it, but my security does include looking there if something funny is going on. Now I am suppose to look in an additinal place, that was added quietly. Someone decided to change where to look for executables in my $HOME. That is uncalled for. > > > Adding a hidden directory to $PATH will cause people do filter it > > out from their $PATH. This leads to more messy use environments, > > not to cleaner ones as is the original purpose of this whole thing. > > > > No, hidden directories should not be in $PATH. If somebody put that > > in their standard, those folks should change their standard. > > Standards can define things that are wrong, and this is one such > > case. > > I'm not especially attached to ~/.local/bin being in PATH (although I > do happen to think the approach used by python for --user > installations is an elegant solution). This whole thread is about ~/.local/bin. I see it adding to the mess found in $HOME, as opposed to cleaning things up. Shoving the mess under a rug is not cleaning. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
