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Re: lynx-dev missed patch for dev.18/19 ?
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev missed patch for dev.18/19 ? |
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Fri, 5 Mar 1999 16:52:11 -0500 (EST) |
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> Re: problems with the bookmark patch at
> <URL: http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0299/msg01047.html >
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> Whoops - sorry about that. Those are all very good points. However,
> ownership
> of the HOME directory isn't _necessarily_ a given. In a closed system,
> some userid like nobody for instance might own the directory
> and exclusive write access to the directory to try to limit certain
> types of 'breakout' activity.
actually, I've only seen misowned-$HOME when we had a sysadmin who installed
users with a script that left root owning their home directories.
(he's gone now)
> Anyone interested enough in this patch to help me figure out how to do it
> 'better'?
well, if no one does, I'll hit it again when I'm integrating dev.20
> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:address@hidden>
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Thomas E. Dickey
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