[6166] in Kerberos
Re: Why TELNET sends arbitrary environment variables at all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Schwartz)
Wed Nov 8 01:57:04 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 07 Nov 1995 22:46:52 GMT
From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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?
XAUTHORITY is another one that is convenient to pass along, given a
network filesystem.
