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Subject: Re: Potential 'which' / 'who' security loophole in 1.94
From: Nick Perry <nick @ aboard . co . uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:16:53 +0000 (GMT)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
In-reply-to: <ufawwvfqubn.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Nov 21, 96 10:36:12 am

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> NP> which .
> 
> Read majordomo.cf and understand $max_which_hits.  which is a useful
> command for people who are trying to unsubscribe themselves but don't know
> exactly which address they are subscribed under, and restricting it (even
> to just list members) should be dome with much thought.

Indeed I go on to mention max_which_hits in my original mail. 

> Please try to understand the configuration options you have before you yell
> "security hole".  We have dome some thinking on the matter.

Didn't say you hadn't, nor did I yell. It is still a POTENTIAL security hole
for the sole reason that this behaviour is not made clear to people
installing and more importantly,  using majordomo. The posting to
majordomo-workers was more for information. I'm principally worried about
majordomo list owners who have no control over and do not even get
sight of majordomo.cf - where the problem is identified. The only thing
a list owner can do is set which_access to be as strict as who_access -
hence my warning.

I hope that makes my intentions clear.
 
Nick

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