Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

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On 07/27/2011 05:00 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.
> 

 Yeh its a bit of a stretch - but it is a little bit easier for a
blackhat to drop a file somewhere than to edit/replace a specific
existing file (which could/should be rx not rwx) ... (think phishing) ..
but still getting it to a damaging place can be more tricky ...

 gene