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\documentclass{article}
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\begin{document}
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\item With which permissions does the program \texttt{login}
normally have and why is this needed?
+\item The variable \texttt{PATH} is a shell variable in UNIX which
+ lists all directories that should be automatically searched for a
+ program. For example if \texttt{PATH} contains the directory
+ \texttt{/usr/bin} and the program \texttt{ls} is stored there, then
+ a user does not need to type \texttt{/usr/bin/ls} to run this file,
+ but \texttt{ls} suffices. The question is why is it a bad idea in
+ general, but in particular for root, to have \texttt{.} as the first
+ entry in ones variable \texttt{PATH}?
+
\item A Unix directory might look as follows:
\begin{center}