Hello, I've written a script that works fine with -T, but when i use a backtick command, perl starts to complain. I've tried to untaint this data, but haven't succeeded. Can anyone help me?? I used a simple regex just to check, but it won't help. 
my $_suffix = `rsh fs3cm -l ccmroot "/home/ccm_root/bin/UpdateSettings
+New.pl -r 62 -d $dbname"`;
if ($_suffix =~ /(.+\s+.+\s+.+)/)  # Untaint the scalar
{
  $suffix = $1;  # Pass the value to this scalar if successfully untai
+nted
}
else  # Otherwise exit the program with error message
{
  $message = 'The remote shell command produced an error in this scrip
+t.';
  &display_page($message);  # Create an HTML-page to display the messa
+ge
  exit;
}

$message = "Database added to $file";
&display_page($message);
exit;

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Perl doesn't like the first line, even if i untaint the $_suffix variable. Thanx a zillion...

In reply to Untainting backtick command data by Anonymous Monk

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