Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:34:18 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH for testing Message-ID: <199911172034.VAA04150@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I
> x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your
> x own uid, but no one else's unless you are root.
>
> I agree, but anything that runs suid has to be excluded as well.
FWIW, I'd be against removing or restricting -e at all.
Programs that put sensitive data into environment variables
(or expect the user to do that) are just _broken_. Removing
or restricting the -e option encourages such brokenness.
Just my 0.02 Euro.
Regards
Oliver
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