[8467] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
RE: Can one find a mount point just knowing the volume name?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Thu Feb 8 13:11:33 2001
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:05:16 -0500
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>,
"'Stephen Joyce'" <stephen@physics.unc.edu>
Cc: "'Morris Strongson'" <mms@bnl.gov>, info-afs@transarc.com
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On Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:43:27 -0600, "Neulinger, Nathan R."
<nneul@umr.edu> wrote:
+-----
| > $vol = `fs lsmount $name`;
|
| I hope you don't plan on running that script with a user that has any
| privileges as you've got a gaping security hole right there.
+--->8
Of late I've become quite a fan of quotemeta for this purpose:
$vol = `/usr/afsws/bin/fs lsm \Q$name`;
It's overkill but it works.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
