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smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail
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ssmmrrsshh --cc command
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The _s_m_r_s_h program is intended as a replacement for _s_h for use in the
``prog'' mailer in _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l(8) configuration files. It sharply limits
the commands that can be run using the ``|program'' syntax of _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l
in order to improve the over all security of your system. Briefly,
even if a ``bad guy'' can get sendmail to run a program without going
through an alias or forward file, _s_m_r_s_h limits the set of programs that
he or she can execute.
Briefly, _s_m_r_s_h limits programs to be in a single directory, by default
/usr/adm/sm.bin, allowing the system administrator to choose the set of
acceptable commands, and to the shell builtin commands ``exec'',
``exit'', and ``echo''. It also rejects any commands with the charac-
ters ``', `<', `>', `;', `$', `(', `)', `\r' (carriage return), or `\n'
(newline) on the command line to prevent ``end run'' attacks. It
allows ``||'' and ``&&'' to enable commands like: ``"|exec
/usr/local/bin/filter || exit 75"''
Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so forwarding to
``/usr/ucb/vacation'', ``/usr/bin/vacation'',
``/home/server/mydir/bin/vacation'', and ``vacation'' all actually for-
ward to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin/vacation''.
System administrators should be conservative about populating the
sm.bin directory. For example, a reasonable additions is _v_a_c_a_t_i_o_n(1),
and the like. No matter how brow-beaten you may be, never include any
shell or shell-like program (such as _p_e_r_l(1)) in the sm.bin directory.
Note that this does not restrict the use of shell or perl scripts in
the sm.bin directory (using the ``#!'' syntax); it simply disallows
execution of arbitrary programs. Also, including mail filtering pro-
grams such as _p_r_o_c_m_a_i_l(1) is a very bad idea. _p_r_o_c_m_a_i_l(1) allows users
to run arbitrary programs in their _p_r_o_c_m_a_i_l_r_c(5).
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Compilation should be trivial on most systems. You may need to use
-DSMRSH_PATH=\"_p_a_t_h\" to adjust the default search path (defaults to
default program directory (defaults to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin'').
FFIILLEESS
/usr/adm/sm.bin - default directory for restricted programs on most OSs
/var/adm/sm.bin - directory for restricted programs on HP UX and
Solaris
/usr/libexec/sm.bin - directory for restricted programs on FreeBSD (>=
3.3) and DragonFly BSD
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$Date: 2013-11-22 20:52:00 $ SMRSH(8)