[Slackbuilds-users] Add "unset CDPATH" at the head of SlackBuilds

[Eric Hameleers]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Grissiom wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In recent work, I know that it is better to unset CDPATH at the very
> beginning of packaging scripts. There are tow reasons:
>
> 1, If CDPATH is not empty, cd will echo the dir name to stdout each
> time changes pwd. This will mess up the output in some cases.
>
> 2, User can use CDPATH to mislead cd's search path and then _may_ do
> something dangerous. For example:
...
> You can see CDPATH can make cd don't change into folder under current
> directory. This may lead to vulnerable  problems in SlackBuilds.
> This is tested in normal user but applicable to root.

If I put a gun to my head and pull the trigger, I may get killed too.

I do not believe that a SlackBuild script should try and safeguard the 
user from all the weird things he does as root.  Keep your root 
environment 
clean and nothing disastrous will happen.

Cheers, Eric

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