Running external module and accessing the created objects
Kene Meniru
kemeniru at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 09:38:59 EDT 2013
Michael Torrie <torriem <at> gmail.com> writes:
> It's not possible to setuid a python script, so I don't see how execfile
> or exec is any more dangerous than the user creating a shell script that
> rm -rf * things, and then running it.
>
> Bash "exec's" scripts all the time that users create and provide. How
> is this different and what issues did you have in mind, exactly?
>
This is close to my reasoning too, although I appreciate Dave's concern.
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