Re: procmail

[repayne () jeeves net (Rob Payne)]

On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:58:29, James Wang <ming () math uh edu>  previously said:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Neil Soveran-Charley wrote:
> >   I'm sure procmail MUST have some security feature to disallow this
> > sort of thing? But I could be wrong, and haven't checked the manual
> > pages yet.
>         No.  Since there is no way for procmail to know before hand what
> kind of program that you might use.

One way around this would be to have a 'secure bin directory' like that
of smrsh and have procmail's use of programs to only that directory.

                                                                -rob