10 Jul
2002
10 Jul
'02
6:16 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:58:39PM -0400, Jorge O. Martinez wrote:
For one thing, they live on the filesystem. If somebody has read/write access to your filesystem, you have much bigger problems than what th can do to your external methods. e.g. rm -f var/Data.fs.
I understand your concern with a situation like the above, but that is not exactly what I had in mind, I was thinking about matching/replacing strings, and take actions based on matches, not executing commands at the system level.
I know that. I was responding to the mistaken assertion that external methods have no security at all. They have much more security than python scripts. -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"