jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) (10/08/86)
I've boggled my poor brain for days now and I still can't get this
one. Please some nice Berkeley wizard help me on this one or I'll
just find you someday and describe everything (years worth) in person
during your lunch hour. I know you're in Berkeley so that's a
starting point for attack!
I am a user -- NOT root. I have a program which reads all of my
incoming mail courtesy of the | mechanism percular to BSDs forward
files. Thee mail is scanned for commands. One of the commands is a
request to run a program in my diretory. For example, if I have a
program frob in ~/frob. I can, or should be able to say,
@SH frob jantypas@machine
This will run frob under the mailer and mail the stdout back to
jantypas@machine. It works when I do it, but then again, I own the
file. If anyone else sends me mail -- the process terminate with an
error. Who owns the process when invoked by the mailer. I have tried
setting modes to 47xx on files and stuff like that to no avail. If
anyone wants the source to see what I mean, I'd be glad to send it to
them. How can the mailer run programs in my account.
HELP!
John Antypas
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