Re: [Gretl-users] shell_ok question
On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
Dear all,
The User's guide says that
shell_ok on/off are in the GUI
for security issues.
What are typical dangers?
Maybe not very likely, but for example
! rm -rf /
If a gretl user has root privileges that would trash the hard
drive. Or
! rm -rf ~/
even without root privileges would totally destroy the user's
filespace.
The shell is powerful! To date we have no evidence of malicious
gretl scripts being distributed, but we'd rather not wait for a
disaster to occur before imposing some default limitations.
Allin