Re: backslashes in uuxqt command cause lossage

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From: Mike Wescott
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1986 18:22

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In article <156@picuxa.UUCP> warren@picuxa.UUCP (Warren Burstein) writes:
> I discovered today that if you uux a command that contains one or
> more backslashes, you get "execution permission denied" mail.

Yep. HDB uuxqt rejects commands with a backslash or a backquote.  Security
reasons.  I can see the reason for the backquote being excluded, but my
imagination has not found a fiendish way to use the backslash.  Not yet,
anyway.
-- 
	-Mike Wescott
	 ncrcae!wescott

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From: wescott@sauron.UUCP (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: backslashes in uuxqt command cause lossage
Message-ID: <711@sauron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 14:22:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: sauron.711
Posted: Tue Aug 26 14:22:15 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 21:34:06 EDT
References: <156@picuxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: wescott@sauron.UUCP (Mike Wescott)
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Organization: NCR Corp., Advanced System Development, Columbia, SC
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Keywords: HDB
Summary: it's a feature not bug

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