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Re: bashbug chooses wrong $EDITOR executable
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: bashbug chooses wrong $EDITOR executable |
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Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:01:28 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Chet Ramey wrote:
> Villeneuve wrote:
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> > Fix:
> > Do not prepend system paths in front of PATH in the bashbug script.
> > Instead, these default paths could be appended to PATH if necessary.
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> To do otherwise is a potential security hole.
It seems okay to leave PATH alone to me. Why set it at all?
I don't see the security issue that you are concerned about. Could
you educate me?
Bob