landon: HIGH: bookmark file

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:04:20 -0300
From: Carrie Gates <gates@cs.dal.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
References: <97May26.090211adt.715(4)@ug.cs.dal.ca>
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I have just committed a change to lynx which prevents a user from changing
the name of their bookmark file from their settings page.  (I just
completely removed the option.)

Let me know if this causes any problems.

Carrie

On Mon, May 26, 1997 at 09:02:09AM -0300, James Fifield wrote:
> Through the settings page, I can set my bookmark file to be anything I choose.
> 
> If I log out, and then log back in, I can then read that bookmark file, 
> (although I'm not yet sure if I'm able to write to it, it doesn't seem so).
> 
> However, the point is that I am able to read any file in at least my home 
> directory.
> 
> Fortunately, this will not allow certain key files to be compromised it seems, 
> for instance, $CS_ROOT/etc/htpasswd still seems to be unreadable, (i'm not sure 
> why), but that's a "GoodThing(tm)".
> 
> Still, it's something to look at, perhaps we could "fix" the bookmark file 
> temporarily?
> 
> --
> James Fifield
> <fifield@ug.cs.dal.ca>
> 



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