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4SMRSH(8)                                                 SMRSH(8)
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7NNAAMMEE
8       smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail
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10SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
11       ssmmrrsshh --cc command
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13DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
14       The  _s_m_r_s_h program is intended as a replacement for _s_h for
15       use in the ``prog'' mailer  in  _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l(8)  configuration
16       files.   It  sharply  limits  the commands that can be run
17       using the ``|program'' syntax  of  _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l  in  order  to
18       improve  the  over  all security of your system.  Briefly,
19       even if a ``bad guy'' can get sendmail to  run  a  program
20       without going through an alias or forward file, _s_m_r_s_h lim-
21       its the set of programs that he or she can execute.
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23       Briefly, _s_m_r_s_h limits programs  to  be  in  the  directory
24       /usr/adm/sm.bin,  allowing  the  system  administrator  to
25       choose the set of acceptable commands.   It  also  rejects
26       any  commands with the characters ``', `<', `>', `|', `;',
27       `&', `$', `(', `)', `\r' (carriage return), or `\n'  (new-
28       line)  on the command line to prevent ``end run'' attacks.
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30       Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so  forwarding
31       to      ``/usr/ucb/vacation'',      ``/usr/bin/vacation'',
32       ``/home/server/mydir/bin/vacation'', and ``vacation''  all
33       actually forward to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin/vacation''.
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35       System  administrators  should be conservative about popu-
36       lating /usr/adm/sm.bin.  Reasonable  additions  are  _v_a_c_a_-
37       _t_i_o_n(1),  _p_r_o_c_m_a_i_l(1),  and the like.  No matter how brow-
38       beaten you may be, never include any shell  or  shell-like
39       program  (such  as _p_e_r_l(1)) in the sm.bin directory.  Note
40       that this does not restrict  the  use  of  shell  or  perl
41       scripts in the sm.bin directory (using the ``#!'' syntax);
42       it simply disallows execution of arbitrary programs.
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44CCOOMMPPIILLAATTIIOONN
45       Compilation should be trivial on most  systems.   You  may
46       need  to  use -DPATH=\"_p_a_t_h\" to adjust the default search
47       path  (defaults  to   ``/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb'')   and/or
48       -DCMDBIN=\"_d_i_r\"  to  change the default program directory
49       (defaults to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin'').
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51FFIILLEESS
52       /usr/adm/sm.bin - directory for restricted programs
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54SSEEEE AALLSSOO
55       sendmail(8)
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