On Wed, 6 Nov 1996 03:30:20 -0800, John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca> mumbled:
> See the whole kerfluffle over telnetd and environment variables.
> Letting people set arbitrary environment variables at the login prompt
> would be a repeat.  If you follow the various security mailing lists
> you would know that this is a very bad idea.  I vote NO.

Thank you, John.  Finally someone else except me and Curt who is pointing  
this out.

Regards,
Chris

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