since the environment is supposed to be part of the address space
it is ssupposed to be private..
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> > x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I
> > x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your
> > x own uid, but no one else's unless you are root.
> >
> > I agree, but anything that runs suid has to be excluded as well.
>
> FWIW, I'd be against removing or restricting -e at all.
>
> Programs that put sensitive data into environment variables
> (or expect the user to do that) are just _broken_. Removing
> or restricting the -e option encourages such brokenness.
>
> Just my 0.02 Euro.
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
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