Debian Bug report logs - #67714
/etc/skel/.bash_profile: the ~/bin setup of PATH is not ok.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Patrik Rak <patrik@ein.cz>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: /etc/skel/.bash_profile: the ~/bin setup of PATH is not ok.

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:12:20 +0200

Package: bash
Version: 2.04-6
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

I remember I have sent the following suggestion to be added to default
/etc/skel/.bash_profile as an example.

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ]
then
        PATH="${PATH}:`echo ~/bin`"
fi

However, I have just noticed that someone removed the echo and changed it to

PATH="~/bin:${PATH}"

I don't mind the order change, but the echo command is important. Without
it all programs which don't perform the tilde expansion on their own start moaning
or fail to work completely. And other programs may complain about the security
issues of ~/ in the PATH.

Even if it is currently commented out and serves just as an example, please put
the echo command back. It will eventually save some time of the users which decide to
uncomment it.

Thanks,

Patrik

P.S. I always wonder who undoes the things that obviously must have been
done on some purpose.

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux eagle 2.2.15 #1 Tue May 30 12:02:50 CEST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files              2.2.1                   Debian base system miscellaneous files
ii  libc6                   2.1.3-10                GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii  libncurses5             5.0-6                   Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libreadline4            4.1-1                   GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries.

Message #10 received at 67714-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>

To: 67772-done@bugs.debian.org, 67714-done@bugs.debian.org, 67094-done@bugs.debian.org, 70007-done@bugs.debian.org, 71848-done@bugs.debian.org, 66939-done@bugs.debian.org, 69392-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed in bash-2.04-7

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:31:35 +0200 (MET DST)

fixed in bash-2.04-7.

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