>Make some kind of generic function that will check the incoming string.
>Allow NO Unix shell-characters ; : & > < and you will be fine.
This is not a good approach to programming a secure environment. You
should decide what consists of a vaild set of characters and allow only
characters from that set, rather than deciding which characters aren't
allowed. Its much safer building from the empty set, than removing from a
full set. Just check that each character is in the set { [a-zA-Z][0-9].@_
} (and maybe a couple other characters). Fork/exec will also improve
safety by bypassing shells.
Eric
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