From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 15 15:21:20 2004
Subject: Re: alias-like function?
From: taltman at lbl dot gov
To: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>,    help-octave <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:17:53 +0000 (UTC)



On Jan 14, 2004 at 11:11pm, Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:

g.beva >No problem! Just create a directory in your home area (~/bin) and set
g.beva >your PATH in .bashrc to pick up that directory first:

This is a security risk. If for any reason someone gets write-access to 
your local ~/bin directory, they can place scripts in there that can 
masquerade as the authentic system programs, like "passwd", etc.

Generally not recommended.

~Tomer



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