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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:27:00 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
Cc:        kientzle@acm.org
Subject:   Re: Environment Poisoning and login -p
Message-ID:  <20040227112658.GA36271@nagual.pp.ru>
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:
> > 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.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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