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  3. March 2006

Re: Support for STRPCCMD

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:59 -0700, James Rich wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> > I added support for STRPCCMD (a command sent to the PC through the 5250
> > data stream) to lib5250.  I just finished committing the changes.
> 
> I just looked at the code.  Maybe this is a dumb idea, but would it be 
> good to check that the command to be run isn't going to do some damage to 
> the system?  For example, if running as root perhaps tn5250 could refuse 
> to enable the STRPCCMD support, regardless of the config (obviously with a 
> message telling what is going on)?

Simple.  Rule 1 of linux/unix - never run as root.

I really like the idea that it has to be enabled in the config file.  

If one is silly enough to create a /root/.tn5250rc file AND enable
remote commands, then I think one may indeed get what one deserves.

Regards,
Rich

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