Quoting "Chet Ramey" <chet.ra...@case.edu>:


Which should not be affected by what we're talking about, which is not
importing PS4 from the environment when uid == 0.


He later said "(Blocking PS4 and not SHELLOPTS=xtrace would work for me in that
regard)".

Still shows how useful xtrace is and how it is necessary.

In this case, yes, blocking PS4 would be best when uid == 0.

It could still be abused when something does setuid() to a uid other than 0 though, but obviously not as bad.

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