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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:25:40 -0500
- From: Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Making a hyperlink running another program ?
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov11.094617.15591@atomica.fi>
- References: <1992Nov11.094617.15591@atomica.fi>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 11-Nov-92 Making a hyperlink
- running .. Dag Nygren@atomica.fi (535)
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- is there a way of using pushbuttons to run other programs from a ez document?
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- The problem with doing this is that the general case is a rather nasty
- security hole. That is if you can send mail or a bboard post with a
- button with any arbitrary command there is a much greater risk of a
- (pick your favorite computer program nasty) deleting all your files, or
- looking at private data. Under ATTBL_ENV in atk/hyplink/linkv.c there
- is some code for having buttons which execute a command, but it depends
- on a class we didn't pick up from the contributors... (AT&T Bell Labs).
-
- It might be cool to subclass linkv so that selected programs could be
- run on the destination of a link, but care would be needed to ensure
- that security isn't compromised. (For example having a filename like
- blah`rm -rf $HOME/*`foo go through sh would be unfortunate...)
-
- -Rob Ryan
- Andrew Consortium
-