Re: [Lynx-dev] forbid local file browsing?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Craig Skinner wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 05:02:12PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > How do I go about forbiding lynx browsing the local file system?
> >
> > You should be able to do that using the -restrictions option, e.g.
> >
> >         lynx -restrictions=dired_support
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but no change here.
>
> I tried it as an alias, and also as an argument, but could still browse
> /etc:

ok (should have tried that...).

I think you'd have to build lynx without dired support.
The restriction seems to only prevent them from using the file menu.

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