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.

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