[Mono-list] Working with Files

[Sebastien Pouliot]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:10 -0400, Lee wrote:
> Hi Everyone, 
> 
> I need to write a small TCP socket server to run on a linux box using a
> simple xml based request/response protocol.  The socket server will need to:
> 
> 1. Be able to replace existing .conf files on the linux box based on
> requests from the client.
> 
> 2. Be able to shell out to utility executables.  An example would be running
> the following:
> 
> sox foo.wav -r 8000 foo.gsm resample -ql
> 
> Are there any caveats or issues that I should be aware of that anyone can
> comment on?  Thanks for your help and guidance.

Quickly I can see some issues:
	Authentication;
	Authorization;
	Confidentiality;
	Auditing
and a caveat:
	lack of security will result in very "bad things"(tm).
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Sebastien Pouliot  <sebastien at ximian.com>
Blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/