execute_sms_1.0  13/September/2002
www.leirianet.pt/~eluis/execute_sms/index.html
by [Joshua]

Eduardo Luis
linux@leirianet.pt

This program executes commands from an e-mail message.
For that you just have to create an e-mail account on your box
and send plain text mails for that account.
The authorization method here is used on the Subject of the e-mail.
Put your password on the Subject of the e-mail and must macth the "x" 
variable on the executable file (execute_sms).
The first purpose for this program was to give some orders
to a LINUX box from any point of my country with a GSM 
telephone via SMS.

******* This program was built on RedHat 6.2 **********************
* You may need to change some paths for this to work on your box. *
*******************************************************************

To start using it, you must have sendmail working and accepting mail
correctly and you must have an account for this program (like "sms"),
execute the file "prepare" (if you agree with the defaults), edit the 
executable file "execute_sms" and change your password and some other 
fields like mail queue, depending on your distribution. 
Then you just have to reconfigure crontab to execute it.
My crontab execute it every 1 minute.
Send e-mail's via mail clients (plain text only) or SMS to that account
with commands on the body. To send multiple commands, separate them 
with a ';'  like this: echo "Kill SSHD" > /tmp/test.txt;killall -9 sshd
This has a log file too.


You may know asking:

- "And, can i receive the ouputs on my GSM phone?"
In Portugal this is not possible, our operators are
no longer receiving mail messages to be converted 
to an SMS message. Fuck them.


----Instalation defaults----

mail accont: sms
mail queue: /var/spool/mail
logging: /var/log/execute_sms.log
temp working dir: /etc/execute_sms
file to be executed: /etc/execute_sms/execute_it


From now on, you just have to use your imagination and use it.

I'm not responsible from any damage you may cause to your box 
with stupid commands sent by e-mail or SMS like "rm -rf /"

Please e-mail any questions, bugs and ideas to:

Eduardo Luis
linux@leirianet.pt
www.leirianet.pt/~eluis
        or
utilizadores.leirianet.pt/~eluis

Enjoy it.

This software is under the GNU/LINUX license terms. For more information
read the LICENSE file in this directory.

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