Hi Ken,

> But even though the person who did this had su'd to root, some of
> their user environment variables were inherited by their root shell
> and then inherited by inetd

That sounds like user error; they ran `su' rather than the more commonly
wanted `su -'.  Similarly today, `sudo -i'.

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