On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> If you really want to do this, you need to give world write access to your
> /usr/local/bin directory. I'd feel a little shy about doing this,
> personally, even if users can't randomly delete files because of the sticky
> bit.

I'd feel really, really damn shy about doing this. Someone's going
to slip a file called `mroe' in there that does something nasty
(such as creates an suid copy of /bin/sh in a secret place) and
then prints `mroe: not found'.

cjs

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