[3872] in bugtraq
Re: jj.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Thu Dec 26 01:11:39 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:04:47 -0500
Reply-To: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
> I have looked at this before, and tilde escaping from /bin/mail
> shouldn't work on most modern systems simply because the /bin/mail's
> I have looked at dont accept tilde escapes unless the the input is
> coming from a terminal, or /bin/mail is invoked with -I.
It's not quite what you asked for...but under SunOS 4.1.3, /bin/mail
_never_ accepts tilde escapes; /usr/ucb/mail is the Berkeley mail
program. And it accepts tilde escapes even if none of the standard
descriptors is a terminal:
% cat | /usr/ucb/mail mouse |& cat
~p
-------
Message contains:
To: mouse
(continue)
It will even do this when there is no /dev/tty; I tried setting up
.rhosts trust and doing "rsh <machine> /usr/ucb/mail mouse"; then,
typing ~p into the rsh produced similar output.
Of course, you can always just define "modern" as "has a Berkeley mail
recent enough that it doesn't accept tildes by default unless stdin is
a terminal", in which case your claim becomes...true but uninteresting.
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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