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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: How to write a "turnin" utility??
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:32:51 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- References: <1992Dec28.213900.14908@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Dec29.015418.12223@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <C010F5.9D6@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C010F5.9D6@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- >
- >others are no doubt possible. Actually, given the known horrors of setuid
- >scripts it should really be a program (or god forbid, Perl, the APL of scripts)
- >to be safe.
-
- Why bother? There is already a facility designed for transferring large
- amounts of text from one user to another in a secure manner. It's called
- mail. You can rig up a mail alias that pipes the mail message into a script,
- sorts it by user and saves it in a directory by user.subject. Then just have
- the students mail their programs to that user. You could even be smart and
- have it reject all messages that aren't from a particular list of users and
- subjects.
- --scott
-