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- NNAAMMEE
- smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail
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- SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
- ssmmrrsshh --cc command
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- The _s_m_r_s_h program is intended as a replacement for _s_h for
- use in the ``prog'' mailer in _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l(8) configuration
- files. It sharply limits the commands that can be run
- using the ``|program'' syntax of _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l in order to
- improve the over all security of your system. Briefly,
- even if a ``bad guy'' can get sendmail to run a program
- without going through an alias or forward file, _s_m_r_s_h lim-
- its the set of programs that he or she can execute.
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- Briefly, _s_m_r_s_h limits programs to be in the directory
- /usr/adm/sm.bin, allowing the system administrator to
- choose the set of acceptable commands. It also rejects
- any commands with the characters ``', `<', `>', `|', `;',
- `&', `$', `(', `)', `\r' (carriage return), or `\n' (new-
- line) on the command line to prevent ``end run'' attacks.
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- Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so forwarding
- to ``/usr/ucb/vacation'', ``/usr/bin/vacation'',
- ``/home/server/mydir/bin/vacation'', and ``vacation'' all
- actually forward to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin/vacation''.
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- System administrators should be conservative about popu-
- lating /usr/adm/sm.bin. Reasonable additions are _v_a_c_a_-
- _t_i_o_n(1), _p_r_o_c_m_a_i_l(1), and the like. No matter how brow-
- beaten you may be, never include any shell or shell-like
- program (such as _p_e_r_l(1)) in the sm.bin directory. Note
- that this does not restrict the use of shell or perl
- scripts in the sm.bin directory (using the ``#!'' syntax);
- it simply disallows execution of arbitrary programs.
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- CCOOMMPPIILLAATTIIOONN
- Compilation should be trivial on most systems. You may
- need to use -DPATH=\"_p_a_t_h\" to adjust the default search
- path (defaults to ``/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb'') and/or
- -DCMDBIN=\"_d_i_r\" to change the default program directory
- (defaults to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin'').
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- FFIILLEESS
- /usr/adm/sm.bin - directory for restricted programs
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- sendmail(8)
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