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Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Secure remote shell
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>> root, that could be automated in a script (no password required).
>
> - have information input into browser
> - have web server save information to server disk in non-executable format
> - have script (or admin) authenticate/authorize commands to be performed
> (recommend doing this manually for a while to ensure you capture as many
> escape type bugs as possible)
> - have commands via another script scrubbed/cleaned/tested
> - have cron perform commands at every X minutes

the most secure compared to others.

only few programs has to be checked for security this way.

it's not dirty way i think