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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: suggestion box needed
Message-ID: <737@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 16:33:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.737
Posted: Mon Sep 15 16:33:19 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Sep-86 05:55:27 EDT
References: <333@spp5.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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In article <333@spp5.UUCP> brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms) writes:
>I've been trying to stay away from someone here while she is writting an
>anonymous suggestion box program to run on one of the Pyramids.  However,
>she is having problems with it and I don't really feel like looking at her
>shell script.  Therefore, has anyone implemented some sort of anonymous
>suggestion box?  I thought about using news or the mh mail system but see
>no way of making the suggestions truly anonymous.  Am I missing something
>really simple?Also, a separate anonymous account is not acceptable in the
>environment the Pyramid is in.  Thanx for any help provided.
>- Brad Brahms usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms

I'm not sure that that meets your criteria with reagards to anonymous
accounts, but what I do is set up an account where the 'shell' specified
in /etc/passwd is just a script that types out a little introduction,
then runs 'rmail destination'.  I don't know of any security problems with
this, although there must be some...

Example:

: simple message script
echo "Type in your suggestion: "
echo "end with control/d or ."
/bin/rmail root



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