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- Path: sparky!uunet!horse!ian
- From: ian@horse.UUCP ( as in Bunny)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Shell Scipt Security
- Message-ID: <24@horse.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:06:42 GMT
- Organization: Whitehorse Systems Group, Inc
- Lines: 23
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- Greetings,
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- I have produced a lengthy bourne shell script to perform a sequence
- of system administration tasks for SCO UNIX users. We are looking for a
- method that we can use to put this shell script on customer sites that
- require it but protect it at the same time from being hacked around.
-
- Whether that be a "shell compiler" or some other mechanism I am open
- to advice. We need to protect our time and investment in this little project
- and stop it from being copied and stolen.
-
- If anyone has any ideas please help.
-
- I do not like to ask for anything without giving something in return
- so I include a one-liner that I have found useful.
- It detects control characters that have mistakenly been placed in
- filenames and displays the control character in the form \nnn.
- Using this, administrators can inform users in advance why they cannot
- retrieve mistyped files.
-
- find / -type f -print | xargs -t ls -qb 2>/dev/null | grep '\\'
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- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- Ian Rabbitt
- ian@wsg.com
- Whitehorse Systems Group, INC
- 534 Main St. South Portland ME USA 04106
- _______________________________________________________________
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