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Index of Subjects On Wed, 14 May 1997, James Fifield wrote: > The cgi-bin/useracctdisplay script uses the following line to partially identify > a user if identd is unable to: > > elif [ -f $CS_ROOT/home/`login2dir "$cgi_LOGIN"`/.forward ] > > I would like to change this to a file that's more likely to exist, (.lynxrc for > instance), at a much later date. > Very bad idea. The contents of the .forward file is checked later in the script to see if the users login host system reports the same user@host This check is to determine if somebody using Netscape can check their membership status on the CSuite host. I figured if the user@host is getting the mail from the CSuite host then they should be able to check their membership status as well. It is actually *very* insecure and probably should be eliminated entirely. The user would just have to login to check their membership status. Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng.
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