Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

[Jim Meyering]

Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote on 11/19/2009 02:47 PM:
>
>> What I meant was this:
>>
>> Can you provide a stand-alone set-up similar to the following, with
>> directories on your PATH (whose perms and ancestor perms are all ok)
>> that still fails:
>>
>>   perl -Te '$ENV{PATH}=~/(.*)/;$ENV{PATH}="$1";`/bin/true`'
>
>
> cd /usr/bin && PATH=/usr/bin/:. /usr/bin/perl -Te 
> '$ENV{PATH}=~/(.*)/;$ENV{PATH}="$1";`/bin/true`'; echo $?
> Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at -e line 1.
> 255
>
> Note dot in PATH.

Ahhh... that must be it.  Thanks.
Having "." in your PATH, at all, is deemed insecure, too.
Don't do that ;-)