Procmail Vulnerabilities check

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Dec 11 18:26:47 UTC 2017


On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> On Monday, 11 December 2017 04:56:04 CET, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> 
>>> El día viernes, diciembre 08, 2017 a las 03:13:02p. m. -0700, Warren Block 
>>> escribió:
>>> 
>>>>> Hmm, why -d ${USER} if this is already known who I am from the
>>>>> ~/.forward file location?
>>>> 
>>>> Because as a sysadmin, then you can copy it to another user without
>>>> having to edit it each time.
>>> 
>>> Hmm, and why the sysadmin has to put in each copy the '-d ${USER}' when
>>> he/she puts the copy in the ~/.forward file of the USER?
>> 
>> Because it's a per-user setting?  I don't know for a fact, but that's how 
>> I'd do it: make the solution as general as possible.
>
> Warren, you have not got my point: Why specfying '-d ${USER}' is required in 
> a per user file in its HOME?

I guess I still don't understand.  I don't know if it's safe or good 
practice to assume $USER is set to the value of basename(~).


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