Re: Advice on (potential?) security problem

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From: Rob Quinn
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 18:27

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In <1992Aug10.140817.20221@fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
]The best things is to totally kill the environment. You'll never
]no what kind of environment variables will be used for whatever purpuse
]in future. Currently IFS, all variables starting with LD_ (on Suns), TERM
]and PATH are the potentially dangerous ones (that I know of).

 How would you use TERM? Use Curses and termcap(terminfo) 'iP' entry?

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