[6163] in Kerberos
Re: Why TELNET sends arbitrary environment variables at all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. J. Bernstein)
Tue Nov 7 23:41:24 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 8 Nov 1995 04:30:39 GMT
From: djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu> wrote:
> djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
> | TZ does vary, but do you really want an ls -l in your home directory to
> | shift all the times by an hour when you connect from the next time zone?
> | Why should this be passed?
> If you launch an xclock, don't you want it to show the correct local
> time?
Why would I want to run xclock remotely? Don't the local clocks work?
Let's try an appointment book. Do you want to see your appointments
shifting to different times?
> XAUTHORITY is another one that is convenient to pass along, given a
> network filesystem.
Things like DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY can and should be handled by
multiplexing data over the original connection.
---Dan
