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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:20:30 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
Cc:        kientzle@acm.org
Subject:   Re: Environment Poisoning and login -p
Message-ID:  <20040227112029.GA736@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040227111353.GA14777@sheol.localdomain>
References:  <403CEF67.5040004@kientzle.com> <20040226225149.GB73252@nagual.pp.ru> <403E7B4D.8030803@kientzle.com> <20040227111353.GA14777@sheol.localdomain>

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:13:53AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> On Feb 26, at 03:03 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >=20
> > Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > >On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:54:31AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > >
> > >>Possible fix:  Have login unconditionally discard LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > >>and LD_PRELOAD from the environment, even if "-p" is specified.
> > >
> > >Yes! It is what I say from very beginning. It is so obvious that I won=
der=20
> > >why others not see it first.
> >=20
> > Instead, I've decided to follow Jacques Vidrine's
> > suggestion of using a whitelist of environment variables
> > that are "known-safe."
>=20
> Coming in from left field... Will there be some sort of mechanism for
> an admin to set/modify this list?
>=20
> Runs, ducking,
> Dave

Surely you are aware of the consequences of s/admin/intruder/? :)
Still, it might be useful indeed.

G'luck,
Peter

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