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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:38:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc:        "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possible security "risk" in ftp client
Message-ID:  <199808112338.TAA14075@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.00.9808111342100.19881-100000@redfish>
References:  <XFMail.980811163822.mtaylor@cybernet.com> <Pine.GSO.4.00.9808111342100.19881-100000@redfish>

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<<On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:44:12 -0700 (PDT), Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> said:

> Naw, that is worse since you can just use ps to grab it; the reason it is
> worse is because it tends to lead to people leaving it set when they
> aren't actually using the program.

I think there are good reasons (and this is one of them) to disable
the environment-dumping option of ps.  Unfortunately it is probably
too well-entrenched to kill.  I had totally forgotten about it until
this discussion began.

-GAWollman

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