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Subject: Re: Environment Poisoning and login -p
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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:27:00PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:13:53AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > > > Instead, I've decided to follow Jacques Vidrine's
> > > > suggestion of using a whitelist of environment variables
> > > > that are "known-safe."
> > > Coming in from left field... Will there be some sort of mechanism for
> > > an admin to set/modify this list?
> > I agree we'll need it (because of different assumptions). Something like
> > /etc/safe_environment file.
> Whoa, Let's not complicate things unnecessarily.

Agreed, let's let this discussion die instead.  login(1) is no longer
setuid root, so the whole thing is a non-issue.

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