[tahoe-dev] Fwd: [cap-talk] Don't put capabilities in argv?

Aleksandr Milewski zandr at allmydata.com
Mon Jul 21 18:26:00 PDT 2008


On Jul 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, zooko wrote:
>
> Hm -- this can also be used as a nice command-line (non-interactive)
> by using echo, something like this:
>
> echo URI:DIR2:ovjy4yhylqlfoqg2vcze36dhde:
> 4d4f47qko2xm5g7osgo2yyidi5m4muyo2vjjy53q4vjju2u55mfa | tahoe put
> helloworld.txt


For very small values of nice. Seriously, *don't* remove the ability  
to put caps directly on the command line. I have no untrusted users on  
my linux box, and am genetically predisposed against systems trying to  
protect me against myself.




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