Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jul 27 21:00:28 UTC 2011


On 7/27/11 1:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Depends on the PATH-Order
>
> if something is intended to be first in PATH and any attacker is able
> to write there his "ls" would win against "/bin/ls"

So, the attacker can write a compromised ls into .local/bin/, but isn't 
able to modify your .bash_profile ?  Seems like a stretch.

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