The problem is that email itself is insecure and unauthenticated, unless you're using GPG or similar signing methods. On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:17:57AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > Actually, I think it's going to email me the users to add, I would do it > with making a requestusers group, changing the file ownerships to the > group, so only people in it can modify it, so who ever I add to the > requestusers group could make accounts. Deletion would be another story, > something would have to authenticate the password before adding the delete > command to the file, if userdel can even take a pipe for input. > At 01:36 AM 8/23/00 -0700, you wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:37:05PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > >> Brent Harding wrote: > >> > How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, > make > >> > the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if > it's > >> > empty. I've never done much with emailing besides piping echo to mail, > but > >> > it's limited to one line. > >> > >> What I would do is put all of the work into a shell script, and have cron > >> call the shell script. Just off the top of my head, something like: > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> if [ -s /path/to/file ] > >> mail -s Here's_the_file email_address@isp.com < /path/to/file > >> rm -f /path/to/file > >> touch /path/to/file > >> fi > > > >Mike: how are you planning on authenticating that the user actually > >created the file, that its permissions don't allow modification by > >others, and that there is nothing in the file which might cause a > >cron-initiated adduser script to crash, fail, overflow, or otherwise do > >Bad Things®? > > > >-- > >Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org > > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! > > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > >GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 > > > >Attachment Converted: "c:\download\Re Exploring the possibilities1" > > > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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