Re: install frescoba 2.18.2 in Ubuntu

[David Wright]

On Fri 04 Mar 2016 at 09:48:16 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote:
> David Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > OK. This one is quite pernicious, but depends on having the : at the
> > beginning of $PATH, which might happen if someone thought the syntax
> > was meant to be, say, PATH=:patha:pathb:and-so-on:
> >
> > $ echo $PATH
> > :/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:
> 
> This is a terrible PATH: it searches the local directory for executables
> (which one should never ever ever do as it is a security hole you can
> drive a truck through), and not once, but twice: before everything else
> and afterwards _again_.
> 
> > Your enemy puts cp somewhere like /tmp/cp, makes it world-executable,
> > then waits for someone to cd /tmp and copy some files.
> 
> I see that was the point you were trying to make, but it does not start
> like that.

I do not know what you are referring to with "it" in "it does not start".
So I'm afraid I don't see the point that your posting is trying to make.

Cheers,
David.