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Date:      Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:17:38 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/login login.c
Message-ID:  <20010209121738.C64219@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <200102091321.f19DLoI59995@freefall.freebsd.org>; from nectar@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:21:50AM -0800
References:  <200102091321.f19DLoI59995@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:21:50AM -0800, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> nectar      2001/02/09 05:21:50 PST
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/login        login.c=20
>   Log:
>   Fix login so that it exports environmental variables that are set by PAM
>   modules (via pam_putenv).  The following variables will never be set in
>   this fashion:
>  =20
>      SHELL, HOME, LOGNAME, MAIL, CDPATH, IFS, PATH
>      any variable starting with `LD_'

This isn't a complete list of insecure environment variables, if
that's what it's trying to be. I would feel much happier making this a
defined list of allowed variables so we don't have obscure security
fallout from it.

Kris

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