[6145] in Kerberos
Re: Why TELNET sends arbitrary environment variables at all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security)
Tue Nov 7 11:04:36 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 7 Nov 1995 15:04:01 GMT
From: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer)
peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>My question is, why did they set up Telnet so it passed arbitrary environment
>variables at all? About the only ones I can think of worth passing are "TERM"
>and "DISPLAY".
That's precisely where the problem starts. You think only of TERM/DISPLAY.
But what about:
TZ
TERMCAP (descibing the complete terminal entry)
LC* (localisation)
LESSCHARSET
WINDOWID
PRINTER (in local environment)
LPDEST (as PRINTER)
EXINIT
LANG
there are probably many more that are pretty portable.
Casper
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