Re: Preserving attachment file names

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On October 21, 2002 at 06:56, Arlen Walker wrote:

> > Of course, you are aware of the security problems of using the
> > "usename" option.
> 
> That this will cause Mhonarc to overwrite any file in the specified 
> archive (specified by -outdir) directory with the same name? Yes. I've 
> sent the archive to a directory far up the tree, that is *not* on any 
> search path for executables. I've also considered using excludeext to 
> exclude any executables from being archived. Do I understand that option 
> correctly, in thinking that's what it will do?

Yes, usename blindly overwrites, which I should probably change.
However, depending on your web server, operating system, and system
configuration, it can be exploited to place system-type files.

--ewh

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