smrsh(1M)
NAME
smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail
SYNOPSIS
smrsh -c command
DESCRIPTION
The smrsh program is intended as a replacement for the sh
command in the prog mailer in sendmail(1M) configuration
files. The smrsh program sharply limits commands that can be
run using the |program syntax of sendmail. This improves
overall system security. smrsh limits the set of programs
that a programmer can execute, even if sendmail runs a pro-
gram without going through an alias or forward file.
Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in the directory
/var/adm/sm.bin, allowing system administrators to choose
the set of acceptable commands. It also rejects any commands
with the characters: ,, <, >, |, ;, &, $, \r (<RETURN>), or
\n (<NEWLINE>) on the command line to prevent end run
attacks.
Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so forwarding to
/usr/ucb/vacation, /usr/bin/vacation,
/home/server/mydir/bin/vacation, and vacation all actually
forward to/var/adm/sm.bin/vacation.
System administrators should be conservative about populat-
ing /var/adm/sm.bin. Reasonable additions are utilities such
as vacation(1) and procmail. Never include any shell or
shell-like program (for example, perl) in the sm.bin direc-
tory. This does not restrict the use of shell or perl scrips
in the sm.bin directory (using the #! syntax); it simply
disallows the execution of arbitrary programs.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c command
Where command is a valid command, executes command.
FILES
/var/adm/sm.bin
directory for restricted programs
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsr, SUNWcsu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M), , attributes(5)
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