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What?

What?

Posted Apr 8, 2004 20:47 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
Parent article: The User-Accessible Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

All users can install software? Yes, in any writable directories. But I
don't know too many configurations that let other people write to a user's
home directory and install applications which will be in everyone's search
path! This sounds like a very, very bad idea.


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