HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:19:32PM -0500, Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:33:41PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > > > 	Hey all,
> > > > I have released a new snapshot of csup a few minutes ago,
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > >   - Executes (shell commands sent by the server, even more rarely
> > > > used),
> > > 
> > > Are you joking?
> > 
> > Are you asking whether he's joking about (1) the idea of ever
> > implementing it, (2) the fact that he hasn't done it yet, or 
> > (3) the idea that it's rarely used?  All of those sound 
> > reasonable to me...
> 
> I'm questioning (1) myself.  This just seems like a bad idea from a
> security perspective.  Of course, some kind of sanitization could
> mitigate the issue.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that whoever runs the cvsup server
already owns your machine, since they're giving you unauthenticated
source code [1].

Kris

[1] Please don't take this as an invitation to talk about how Someone
Should Fix This, since it's not on the table until Someone first
writes csupd :-)
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