[448] in SIPB bug reports
/mit/sipb/bin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Apr 1 23:09:58 1989
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 23:09:07 EST
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Sat, 1 Apr 89 20:44:22 EST <8904020144.AA28247@M11-116-1.MIT.EDU>
From: <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 20:44:22 EST
As I mentioned before spring break, I put zmail into the sipb filesystem.
However, since zrecv is intended to be run from .zephyr.desc, which
cannot (currently) handle environment variables, I created a new directory
called /mit/sipb/bin. All is presently contains is a shell script
called zrecv that simply invokes the correct version of the program
from /mit/sipb/{vax,rt,NeXT}bin.
I do not think this is the right thing to do, since most people do not
have /usr/sipb/bin in their paths and I see no reason to make them add
another directory to their paths (mine is long enough as it is :-).
Instead, you should make /usr/sipb/foobin/zrecv be the shell script
that calls /usr/sipb/foobin/zrecv.real.
Also, since discussion on other mailing lists has established that
zrecv is a bit of a security hole, might it not be appropriate to
remove the program completely until a more acceptable solution is
found?
jik
