<<On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:46:24 -0800, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> This was discussed close to death before the changes were committed,
Where, and by whom? I don't recall seeing any such discussion on
-security.
> and the current behaviour (restricted access) has been agreed by
> general consensus to be the most appropriate.
Agreed by whom? Remember POLA?
> Making this behaviour tunable would be bad; it adds another option
Indeed; it should be reverted completely. Portable programs may not
rely on their argv[] being ``secret''. Portable sysadmins rely on
argv[] not being ``secret''.
Having bogus behavior such as this encourages sysadmins to do all
their work as root -- a very Bad Thing. Not only that, it violates 20
years of UNIX tradition.
-GAWollman
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