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Re: [MiNT] Re: Bootstrapping Sparemint



On 2000-8-23, Guido Flohr <Guido.Flohr@t-online.de> wrote:

> - A reasonable path for mint.cnf would be for me:
> 
> 	setenv PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin  

That path is asking for trouble, in a multi-user environment,
because it is exported. This allows users to find and possibly
execute system-critical binaries in the /sbin family. I prefer:

	setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin

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