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[bug-mailutils] Re: GNU Sharutils and security
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Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
[bug-mailutils] Re: GNU Sharutils and security |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:06:17 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:45:47PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Before that, maybe it's time to split that package? uuencode and uudecode are
> occasionally
> useful and can therefore be reasonably part of a distribution. However, shar
> and unshar
> being a security leak by design, and being obsoleted by the addition of MIME
> attachments
> to email protocols, I think shar and unshar shouldn't be installed on any
> Unix system by
> default.
What about moving uuencode and uudecode to GNU mailutils? Does it make sense?
Stepan Kasal
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