Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] down-root plugin: Replaced system() calls with execve()

2014-12-06 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:31:02PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > From: David Sommerseth > > The system() call is prone to shell expansions and provides far more > environments variables to the executable run than what is usually > preferred. By moving over to exevce()

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] down-root plugin: Replaced system() calls with execve()

2014-12-05 Thread Steffan Karger
Hi, On 16-11-14 15:31, David Sommerseth wrote: > The system() call is prone to shell expansions and provides far more > environments variables to the executable run than what is usually > preferred. By moving over to exevce() shell expansions are far more > difficult to achieve and only the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] down-root plugin: Replaced system() calls with execve()

2014-11-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:31 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > From: David Sommerseth > > The system() call is prone to shell expansions and provides far more > environments variables to the executable run than what is usually > preferred. By moving

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] down-root plugin: Replaced system() calls with execve()

2014-11-16 Thread David Sommerseth
From: David Sommerseth The system() call is prone to shell expansions and provides far more environments variables to the executable run than what is usually preferred. By moving over to exevce() shell expansions are far more difficult to achieve and only the OpenVPN provided

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] down-root plugin: Replaced system() calls with execve()

2013-11-20 Thread David Sommerseth
From: David Sommerseth The system() call is prone to shell expansions and provides far more environments variables to the executable run than what is usually preferred. By moving over to exevce() shell expansions are far more difficult to achieve and only the OpenVPN provided