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  From: Adam Crawford <ca@granite.net.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:28:34 +1030

Re: Smart Redial

David bla bla!



: Adam et al!
:
: > make sure of course you use apache password protection to your
advantage,
: > else have some idiot disconnect you at will <grin>
:
: (1)
: If they managed to work out how to disconnect you they may not be an
: idiot.

any _idiot_ can ath++ you, given the right string of commands/program :)

: (2)
: I don't want to discourage such things, and I may be being paranoid, is
: it particularly wise to roll one's own "do it yourself execute root
: command" shell/perl script? Whilst WebMin and so forth may have a degree
: of complexity, I am reasonably certain that they've gone through a
: period of security and bug testing...

webmin runs on apache password protection as well as a userbase,
but if for some reason an "idiot" as i put it managed to get the admin
password
it would have ten times worse effect then of the script i sent ryan.

: PERL is a great scripting/programming [1] language, but if you miscode
: it you can end up allowing people to do all sorts of weird and wonderful
: things without you knowing until it's too late.

Also, the script i sent him just happened to be a sh script :)
with html links to it, quiet simple, but does the job.

Regards,
Adam Crawford

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