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Index of Subjects On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Carrie Gates wrote: > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:04:20 -0300 > From: Carrie Gates <gates@cs.dal.ca> > Reply-To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca > To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: landon: HIGH: bookmark file > > > 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. Lots of users use the bookmark naming capability, so they will not be happy with this loss of function. That would include keeping a bookmark file in say public_html/public_bookmarks.html. What does your patch do to multi-bookmarks? Why not just make sure the path is below ~ , and is a legitimate bookmark file (whatever that means - perhaps contains some header, is an ".html" file but not a dot file, and is compatible with Pine's add/delete bookmark routine, for an existing file...) Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Assistant Postmaster http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/ W 426-4894 CSuite Technical Workshop Religion Page Editor, Chebucto Community Network http://www.chebucto.ns.ca > > 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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