Re: (dmm): Run arbitrary UNIX commands on webserver without telnet

I can see this discussion has somehow gone off on a tangent.

This approach was NOT (repeat: NOT) ever meant for USERS to see, much less use.

It is, temporarily, a way to:

find out the cwd (e.g., by running 'pwd'), for example, in order to install some script you got from somewhere that needs to know where it is installed,
unpack a gzipped tarball you just FTP'ed onto a site ('zcat whatever.tar.gz|tar -xvf -'),
determine the version of perl you're running ('perl -V')
etc.

Once again, this is not for users. It is for me, the developer!

dmm


You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day ...
Or, you can teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime

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(jeffa) 2Re: (dmm): Run arbitrary UNIX commands on webserver without telnet by jeffa (Bishop) on Oct 30, 2001 at 23:36 UTC
Ah, okay - i see the difference now. But remember this, it is for you AND anyone who hacks your packets while you run this. jeffa You can give a man a fire and warm him for a day . . . or you could set the man on fire and keep him warm for a lifetime (quote stolen from boo_radley)	[reply]
Re: (dmm): Run arbitrary UNIX commands on webserver without telnet by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Oct 30, 2001 at 23:43 UTC
touché dmm	[reply]