----- Original Message -----
From: "adam morley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: tmda-pending read from stdin?


> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:18:28PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote:
> > adam morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Is there any way to pipe a message name/number to tmda-pending to
> > > get it to release?
> >
> > Is piping necessary?  How about this?
> >
> > $ tmda-pending -br 1012182077.5803.msg
> >
> > In other words, pass the message's filename on the command line.  This
> > is taken from the example you get when you type tmda-pending --help.
>
> That's what I normally do, but I'm doing this with perl, and when I run
perl from a website/email gateway, I only use pipes, as I've heard those are
secure, whereas putting something from a piece of user data into a shell is
a ``bad thing'' so to speak.  But I'm not an expert on this, so I wouldn't
mind a few opinions.  I am matching for specifically a line containing a
tmda message id ([0-9] a bunch of times, a dot, 0-9 a couple times, ., msg)
>

Adam,

The reason that you don't want to put stuff on the command line is so that a
"bad guy" can't just 'ps -ef'  to get your passwords. There is no quality
information to be gleaned from the release of a pending message. I would say
that you were safe to proceed with the command line option.
--
kevin zollinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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