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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 10 01:07:03 1990

To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 90 01:06:45 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

...doesn't set its path.  It should set it to a minimal path ("PATH=/bin"
would be sufficient, since "echo" is the only command lacking a path).
There is no reason to follow the user's path, and good reason not to
(reference to remote filesystems which may be unavailable).


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