Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:55:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Cleto Pescia <cleto@eurisco.com> To: User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ps ax shows login after 4.2-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107291048590.317-100000@venus.e-link.ch> In-Reply-To: <20010728193032.A4973@localhost>
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Hello, > I also have login -p followed by my username. I am not, or have ever > run telnetd. I installed on July 4th, and cvsupped to 4.x Stable on the > 16th. I cvsupped the sources on July 21st, and I also do not run telnetd. > I have not yet applied the patch for telnetd because I don't use > that daemon. Something worth finding out is the file the system consults > to get the default flags for the login command when a user logs in. If -p > is included, then I think we're safe. Which file should I check? -p only means login is not discarding any previous environment settings. What makes you think that such a setting is safe? Perhaps because so nothing else can set variables such as PATH, EDITOR, etc.? Anyway, thanks for your reply. Cleto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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