J�rgen Fr�jk Kj�rsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David N. Welton" wrote:
> >
> > What are the goals for using a safe interpreter? There are a couple
> > of different things people could want out of it, depending on how they
> > are using mod_dtcl, and I'd like to know what is of most interest.
> My main objective is simply to make it harder to break into a
> site. If a script has a security hole through which user input gets
> eval'ed or subst'ed, a safe interpreter will limit the amount of
> harm possible (thus satisfying paranoid customers ;-)
Ok. Another use might be to try and make a 'sandbox' in which two
users could run scripts and not mess with one another. This is
decidedly more difficult to accomplish, though.
Ciao,
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