#1 Dangerous Option Handling Fails on long options

[John Gibson]

The dangerous option handling improperly detects long options as short options when determining whether or not to execute a command. For example:
May 19 20:18:32 tyr scponly[56589]: option e is not permitted for use with /usr/local/bin/rsync (arg was rver)(username: x(1000), IP/port: x.x.x.x 55013 22))
May 19 20:18:32 tyr scponly[56589]: requested command (/usr/local/bin/rsync --server --sender -lAogDtprR --numeric-ids . /usr/local/aolserver) tried to use disallowed argument (username
: x(1000), IP/port: x.x.x.x 55013 22))

It thinks that --server was -e and rejects it accordingly.
I was able to fix this by changing helper.c to use getopt_long(), however I'm not sure how portable this solution is and I only tested it with rsync.

[Paul Kremer]

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here is a relevant discussion thread online:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg286540.html

Most importantly, the debian maintainer wants this issue fixed upstream before patching the program himself.
The patch is here:

http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/svn-commits/2006-March/003205.html