Taint check

[J. Paul Reed]

On 27 May 2003 at 15:16:24, Colin Bendell moved bits on my disk to say:

> What is the reasoning for using the Taint check on many of the perl
> scripts in bugzilla?  

See bug 108982. Basically, taint mode provides some modicum of security for
certain types of things in perl.

> I've had to remove them to get Perl working under win32 (worked as is in
> the linux configuration).  

That's probably not the proper solution to the problem; doing so reduces
the security of your BZ installation. 

Are you using IIS?
 
> Forgive me if this has been discussed ad nausea, but the 'developers'
> news group doesn't seem to have a 'search' feature.

It does.

Find it at http://groups.google.com.

Later,
Paul
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