From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 12 18:49:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA17674 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 18:49:53 -0700 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA17665 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 18:49:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199505130149.SAA17665@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by crh.cl.msu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA27463; Fri, 12 May 1995 21:49:42 -0400 From: Charles Henrich Subject: Re: REMOTE_HOST & REMOTE_USER To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 21:49:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at May 13, 95 05:10:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 533 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Just a real example shows that it capable: tcsh set REMOTEHOST > environment variable. If even shell can set it, login can set it too. I know its possible. I'll probably go ahead and add it to inetd then have login get the environment variables before resetting them. This will give all inetd tools (i.e. everything) the ability to reference those variables, which are most entirely useful. -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/