Craig Barratt wrote at about 07:47:13 -0800 on Tuesday, December 1, 2009: > Jeff writes:
> > Which brings to mind a suggestion... > > Why not execute these commands in a shell. > > They are not run that frequently (once per day per host) so the > > overhead of launching a shell would be low while the benefit would be > > high in terms of flexibility. > > It's not the overhead - the goal is to avoid potential security > issues with shells (which come from all the flexibility it offers). > While a shell can certainly be used securely (including careful > argument checking, using absolute paths for executables, using -b > etc), one of several risks include having someone sneak in arguments > that include meta characters (eg "; /bin/rm -rf /"). > What about offering shells as a user-configurable option? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
