Re: GNU Sharutils and security

[Eric Backus]

"Stepan Kasal" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> 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

Or perhaps uuencode and uudecode are simply fileutils, or possibly
textutils.  Email doesn't use them much anymore, right?

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Eric Backus