At 13:29 1/11/95, Ted Soldan wrote:
>After the smoke cleared from this mess, I got to thinking about such
>a program, and decided that it wouldn't be too hard to write, and that
>once written, it could "attack" any site that ran the majordomo
>software. I also couldn't think of any defense against it. Our
>systems programmer wrote a script to remove this user from every list
>here, and since it edited the files, it didn't generate a unsubscribe
>message that the program could interpret and trigger a resubscribe
>message.
You should make sure the script follows the Majordomo file-locking conventions
(see the "medit" program for an example; maybe even adapt medit to your needs),
so that you don't end up with trashed files.
If you'd like to contribute this program for distribution (and I hope you
will), please submit it according to the guidelines I just posted to the
Majordomo-Users mailing list.
-Brent
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