DakarContrib

Dakar compatibility module for use with plugins that need some of the infrastructure that has been established since TWiki-4.0.0 (dakar). Most notably, this is the security sandbox that eliminates the most common attack vectors to TWiki seen in the past.

Detailed Documentation

Allocate a sandbox object

  my $sandbox;

  unless (defined &TWiki::Sandbox::new) {
    eval "use TWiki::Contrib::DakarContrib;";
    $sandbox = new TWiki::Sandbox();
  } else {
    $sandbox = $TWiki::sharedSandbox;
  }

Call an external process

  my ($result, $errorCode) = $sandbox->sysCommand($cmdTemplate>, %params);

Normalize a filename

  $fileName = TWiki::Sandbox::normalizeFilename($fileName);

Installation Instructions

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip DakarContrib.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/DakarContrib.txt	contrib topic
  lib/TWiki/Contrib/DakarContrib.pm	perl module

Contrib Info

-- TWiki:Main/MichaelDaum - 26 Jan 2006