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A few things. I have made mods. to our local test lynx (based on the the
latest development version) to disallow browsing of directories that are
not writeable by the user. This preserves the ability of the user to browse
their own files and IP areas for which they are responsible. It does not
protect against looking at any particular world-readable file (like
/etc/passwd)
They should not be able to browse any log directories even now, since
those directories should not be readable by regular users.
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, MACN admin wrote:
> is there a way to stop a user from getting to the root file system when
> they hit the "goto" key and enter "/". i have seen one system hack this so
> that you could not do this. the user can see all the file system, they
> could possible down load the passwd file and such or a least do screen
> dumps of the such.
>
> i know one user on our system has made bookmarks to some of the log files
> this way.
>
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David Trueman,
Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net
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