/home/user/bin

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 20:56 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Also note that such a malware script could simply fiddle with your shell
> startup files and make 'sudo', 'su', etc. be aliases to something
> different. Including ~/bin in $PATH opens no extra vulnerabilities and
> is an enormous convenience.

  And if something/someone can put/change files in ~/bin/, it can change
everything in your $HOME/, including $HOME/.bashrc (to control your
shell). At that point, worrying if ~/bin/ was in your PATH or not is
useless.

  So i agree with Colin, nothing to worry about putting ~/bin/ in your
path. And it's very convenient.

-- 
Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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