From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] File server for NT In-Reply-To: <200305160206.h4G265509599@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:26:09 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aea42540-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 15 May 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > Is having dot at the *beginning* of the path really that great > of an idea? I've always wondered what was up with that. it's great if you're trying to social engineer somebody on Unix, right? Sometimes it even wins you a free TV. (For those who remember the Gould (I think) booth at one of the Unix conventions long ago ... root had a path with '.' at the front, and breaking in was just a matter of smooth-talking the sysadmin into cd-ing somewhere and typing 'ls') ron