sandbox.lua/README.md
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sandbox.lua
===========
A pure-lua solution for running untrusted Lua code.
For now, sandbox.lua only works with Lua 5.1.x.
Usage
=====
local sandbox = require 'sandbox'
-- sandbox can handle both strings and functions
local msg = sandbox(function() return 'this is untrusted code' end)
local msg2 = sandbox("return 'this is also untrusted code'")
sandbox(function()
-- see sandbox.lua for a list of safe and unsafe operations
return ('I can use safe operations, like string.upper'):upper()
end)
-- Attempting to invoke unsafe operations (such as os.execute) is not possible
sandbox(function()
os.execute('rm -rf /') -- this will throw an error, no damage don
end)
-- It is not possible to exhaust the machine with infinite loops; the following
-- will throw an error after invoking 500000 instructions:
sandbox('while true do end')
-- The amount of instructions executed can be tweaked via the quota option
sandbox('while true do end', {quota=10000}) -- throw error after 10000 instructions
-- It is also possible to use the env option to add additional variables to the environment
sandbox('return foo', {env = {foo = 'This was on the environment'}})
-- The variables defined on the env are deep-copied and changes on them will not be persisted
local env = {foo = "can't touch this"}
sandbox('foo = "bar"', {env = env})
assert(env.foo = "can't touch this")
-- If you want to modify variables from inside the sandbox, use the refs option:
local refs = {foo = "kindof insecure"}
sandbox('foo = "changed"', {refs = refs})
assert(refs.foo = "changed")
Installation
============
Just copy sandbox.lua wherever you need it.
License
=======
This library is released under the MIT license. See MIT-LICENSE.txt for details
Specs
=====
This project uses [busted](http://olivinelabs.com/busted/) for its specs. In order to run them, install `busted` and then:
cd /path/to/where/the/spec/folder/is
busted