On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:20:46AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > I haven't followed all of this thread, too self busy. However there is > a security argument. If you have a local executable directory, then > the capability for malicious software to attach is wide open for that > user, whatever their privelege level might be. > > Most businesses that have linux in their suite, won't want a ~/.bin > anywhere in their organization. If a malicious attacker have privileges to create/modify $HOME/.bin/foo, then they will also have privileges to modify $HOME/.bashrc to add any directory they wish to $PATH. So that security argument doesn't hold water. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/B7DIN36VCWSFUBQBU7JXBBWWWUXSDN7X/
