Hi Stas, On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Ged Haywood wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, James Tolley wrote: > > > >>How can I untaint $ENV{PATH}?? > > > > You have to do it in those (appropriate) places where the data appear, > > in every request. Use a substitution command to convert characters > > from user input which might become dangerous if your scripts can use > > them as input to things like system calls. > > Ged, sorry, but this is totally wrong. Ouch. :( You're quite right Stas, I realized as soon as I'd hit CTRL-X what I'd done. Ignore me. It's late. Sorry all. 73, Ged.