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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: pgnus-0.33: multipart/mixed: usage of filename?
Date: 10 Oct 1998 23:45:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u31c9jmc.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "02 Oct 1998 14:29:11 +0200"

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> I'd prefer Gnus to save it as /tmp/emmXYZZY/etc/passwd instead (of
> course removing all "../" in the filename for security), then I could
> "cp -r /tmp/emmXYZZY/* /" if I wanted to.

Uhm...  No, I don't think that would be of much actual use -- I can't
imagine someone ever doing that.  Well, if we had a save-all-parts
command, it might be more realistic, actually.  Hm.  Er.  Hm.  Does
anyone ever send a multipart/mixed message that contains an entire
directory hierarchy?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-10 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-25  9:29 Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-25  9:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-28  9:14 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-09-29 10:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-29 12:59   ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-10-01  2:40     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-01  9:02       ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-10-01 14:18         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-01 18:33           ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-10-02  2:47             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-02 10:48             ` grossjohann
1998-10-02 12:29               ` Simon Josefsson
1998-10-10 21:45                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1998-10-02  9:01           ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-10-10 21:41             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-10 23:28               ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-10-11  0:17                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-12  9:52                   ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-10-12 13:10                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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