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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pass environment through rlogin
Message-ID: <20872@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:00:22 GMT
References: <696@cs.wmich.edu> <1989Nov21.040936.10463@athena.mit.edu> <14137@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <14137@boulder.Colorado.EDU> skwu@boulder.Colorado.EDU
(WU SHI-KUEI) writes:
>Once more already yet again, Jonathan is wroooong!!!  System V (and even
>never made available Release 4 before it) 'login' allows setting
>environmental variables on the command line.

And in the process, opens a number of security holes.

>MORAL: the world is more than just BSD, thank goodness.

Right: how else could we have something to compare against that makes
us look so good? :-)

(Actually, under 4.3BSD, `login -p' preserves the environment.  As always,
it must be used with care.)
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