From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-05-11T19:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Who added this to my $PATH?

Hi, I'm the original poster.

> I hope that a gem author would 
> not do something so obviously dangerous

After thinking more about this, I think there's 70% probablity that it 
was I who added that line to that file. It's just that I don't remember 
this. I do remember that I was writing a certain gem that had an 
executable I experimented with. So let's make it a 85% probability.

And since it's hard to believe any alien script would add that line, 
we'll have to conclude that it is indeed my own handiwork.

>
> How about "ls -l .bashrc" to see when it was last changed?

I tried that, but I might have edited that file since.

I'd better put all my config file in a git repository.


> If a nefarious gem is suspected of making this change, then he can 
> probably find it using a variant of
> 
>     grep -R bashrc /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

(I cleaned up my system, so many of the gems I had aren't there 
anymore.)
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