Re: Re: Re: Alternatives to User::Agent?

Just be careful after you do so to remove them again. (Allowing people to run arbitrary shell scripts is a security hole.)

UPDATE: bobn is right. The above script does not allow someone to run arbitrary code. This reply was just a knee-jerk response to seeing someone doing administration through running shell scripts in cgi-bin.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Alternatives to User::Agent? by bobn (Chaplain) on Jul 20, 2003 at 17:24 UTC
Where does the script run an abritrary shell script? --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Alternatives to User::Agent? by sgifford (Prior) on Jul 20, 2003 at 18:37 UTC
I agree, even though my script doesn't allow arbitrary code to be run, that leaving it lying around is a bad idea. If you're feeling particularly paranoid, you can create an `admin` directory of `cgi-bin` with a `.htaccess` file that protects them with a password.	[reply]