On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Richard Sonnen wrote:

> An off-list discussion of the SA config process brought up an
> unrelated good idea that I'm passing along:
>
> It might be useful to set up spamc and spamd so that you could
> specify alternate config files more easily.  i.e.
>
> spamc --cf /path/to/system/conf/dir --rf /path/to/user/rules
>
> The flags (if present) would be passed on to spamd.
>
> The fact that spamd is often running as root during part of its
> lifespan makes this (potentially) somewhat dangerous. I don't see any
> obvious exploits, but I haven't gone over it in any depth.

Regexps can execute arbitrary code.

-- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->


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