Re: Shell function and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2019-01-20 at 21:57 +0000, Martin Dorey wrote:
> > Why ouch?
> 
> Because it's unpleasant and wasteful to work in an environment where
> you're not trusted.

Well, it might not be work-related.

I can ssh into my ISP server using my local account so I can muck
around and set things up, but I don't have root access to it, and I
wouldn't expect to (or, I would be OK with having root because I trust
myself but I wouldn't want other people to have root access to that
server :-p).

For that matter I have an account on the GNU servers but again, no root
access.  In the early days of the internet anyone with login access to
the GNU servers could become root (these are not the FTP etc. servers
mind you, but still).  After some sad, but predictable, problems RMS
was reluctantly convinced that those systems had to be locked down.

Anyway, this is getting off-topic for sure ... :).