One connection at a time should be enough for anyone. (Or they can edit their interfaces file.)
If you're already getting a list of devices to display, couldn't you just verify that the chosen device matches one of those names? I don't know what it's like to test for illegal characters in the language you're using, but I can tell you it's a pain in the ass in bash. -fsr On 10/06/2015 03:28 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi, > > Now, the frontend can create a text file to declare a default wifi and > ethernet devices. Since this file is writable by ordinary unprivileged > users, and because the file will be used by the backend to decide > which devices to use in cases where such a file exists, I am thinking > about validating the device names before using popen or execl. The > validation will check for illegal characters like shell delimiters > which can be inserted by malicious users to run malicious commands. My > impression is that device names will be composed of letters from the > English alphabet and digits with all other characters unallowed. > > With the backend directly accessing the text file, additional > parameters to define the network interface to use will be avoided for > both Connect and Disconnect. This means, the backend command set will > remain unaltered. > > Edward > > > On 06/10/2015, Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is it possible to run more than one instance of netman? >> >> No, only the previous versions allow more than one instance of netman >> to run. The current one I am working on (not yet pushed to git) >> prevents users from running more than one instance. >> >> Edward >> >> On 06/10/2015, Clarke Sideroad <clarke.sider...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 10/06/2015 09:24 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: >>>> In the case of more than one wifi and/or more than one ethernet >>>> connector, netman will either use decide by itself to use a device >>>> from the available list or choose a device from the defaults set by >>>> the user. >>>> >>>> I think, netman should not support more than one active connection as >>>> is currently the case. >>>> >>>> Please give feedback so that I start to work on the backend. >>>> >>>> >>> There are cases when multiple connections and networks do come in handy, >>> but I think in those cases we are dealing with things that might be >>> better off started separately going back to the basics. AFAIK Wicd only >>> handles one connection at a time. >>> >>> Is it possible to run more than one instance of netman? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Clarke _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
