brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms) (09/04/86)
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I've been trying to stay away from someone here while she is writting an
anonymous suggestion box program to run on one of the Pyramids. However,
she is having problems with it and I don't really feel like looking at her
shell script. Therefore, has anyone implemented some sort of anonymous
suggestion box? I thought about using news or the mh mail system but see
no way of making the suggestions truly anonymous. Am I missing something
really simple?Also, a separate anonymous account is not acceptable in the
environment the Pyramid is in. Thanx for any help provided.
-- Brad Brahms
usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms
arpa: Brahms@usc-eclcwombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (09/11/86)
If you're willing to set up a notesfile on your system, notes supports anonymous notes. It requires entries for 'notes' and 'anon' in your password file, but neither needs to be passwordless. You just need to turn on anonymous notes in the notesfile. If the suggestion box isn't meant to be read by most of your users, you even disguise the fact that it's going to a notesfile (some people really freak at the mere mention of notes) by using nfpipe. Just build a front-end that throws them into an editor to write up their suggestion and ships the result off to the notesfile with nfprint -a (-a to make it anonymous). Of course, someone who is determined to find out who submitted a suggestion can always go through accounting files to find out who was running nfprint at the time the note was submitted. "Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists." Barry Hughart, *Bridge of Birds* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat
grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) (09/15/86)
In article <333@spp5.UUCP> brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms) writes: >I've been trying to stay away from someone here while she is writting an >anonymous suggestion box program to run on one of the Pyramids. However, >she is having problems with it and I don't really feel like looking at her >shell script. Therefore, has anyone implemented some sort of anonymous >suggestion box? I thought about using news or the mh mail system but see >no way of making the suggestions truly anonymous. Am I missing something >really simple?Also, a separate anonymous account is not acceptable in the >environment the Pyramid is in. Thanx for any help provided. >- Brad Brahms usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms I'm not sure that that meets your criteria with reagards to anonymous accounts, but what I do is set up an account where the 'shell' specified in /etc/passwd is just a script that types out a little introduction, then runs 'rmail destination'. I don't know of any security problems with this, although there must be some... Example: : simple message script echo "Type in your suggestion: " echo "end with control/d or ." /bin/rmail root -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)