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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: comp.mail.maps -> pathalias -> map
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.214819.2391@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 21:48:19 GMT
References: <59425@aurs01.UUCP> <1991Jan12.183150.6640@jpradley.jpr.com> <212@raysnec.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <212@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>
>>I was using plain old 'sh' to crack open the articles, until someone
>>pointed out that this was a dangerous procedure. Now I use "unsharmap",
>>which comes from the smail3.1 distribution.
>
>	I've been using a miniscule shell script to break up and install the
>maps, but run that script as an ordinary, not a priviledged, user. Thus,
>were someone to "taint" the map submissions, any damage done by this
>script would be minimal. Since the submissions are shell scripts, I wonder
>what additional integrity checks are performed by unsharmap as compared to
>our local script.

Since you don't spell out what integerity checks your script performs, how
could anyone compare it to the unsharmap program?
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