Security question

[David Fletcher]

On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 15:56 -0800, Bob wrote:
> I am fairly new to Linux so I have been reading "A Practical Guide to Linux
> Commands, Editors and Shell Programming",  In the book they say that it is a
> security issue to place the working directory and/or the home directory at the
> front of the PATH.  Is this true?  If it is why does Ubuntu put the home
> directory first in the PATH?
> 
> -- 
> Robert Blair
> 

Not seeing that here:-
dave at Tosh-NB520:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
dave at Tosh-NB520:~$