$HOME/bin

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> 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.

The same application could overwrite .bash_profile too.  Or it would
be very contrived to imagine a security hole that lets you create
~/bin and place an arbitrary binary into ~/bin/bash, but doesn't let
you overwrite .bash_profile.  So I don't think this is a security
concern at all in the real world.

Rich.

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