I think you may have misunderstood me. I'm not wanting to change any part of
TMDA's security model. I was only curious as to how they had handled the
setuid in their CGI. I didn't necessarily want the source code, but just a
conceptual example. I still plan on using tmda-cgi for my more advanced
customers. However, the bulk of my customer base will find tmda-cgi way too
complicated to use. Besides, the CGI I put in place had to have a consistent
look and feel as compared to our other tools which we provide to our
customers. As far as using a non-web based solution, I still offer sender's
the oppurtunity to reply to the challenge email and let tmda handle all that
as designed.

Walt

"Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:47:58AM -0400, Walter Wyndroski wrote:
> > The tmda-cgi is very impressive. However, a bit to complicated for many
of
> > my average customers. So I have written a much simplified CGI interface
via
> > Perl.
>
> Just about any CGI-based solution will involve modifying the built-in
> security of TMDA.  You might consider a non-web based solution, such
> as an e-mail-based system, that does not require changes to the TMDA
> security model.
>
> I've made a very preliminary start on such a system here:
>
> http://www.pongonova.net/pub/tmda-ezplm-0.01.tgz
>
> The advantages over CGI-based solutions are (1) reduced complexity and
> (2) no security model changes.  Jason and Tim have (I assume) taken
> great pains to ensure TMDA remains as secure as possible. Where I've
> implemented TMDA, I've chosen to defer to their knowledge in this area
> and not attempt to make changes to their security measures.
>
>   --Brian
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