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Re: lynx-dev -anonymous broken in 2.8.4?
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Henry Nelson |
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Re: lynx-dev -anonymous broken in 2.8.4? |
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Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:59:01 +0900 (JST) |
> lynx to spawn somethign specific, I'd rather the option just wasn't
> there.
Agree 99.9%. The 0.1% is that the administrator needs to edit his
help files, keymap.c, etc. to specifically delete mention of the options
that don't exist.
> > An attempt by an anonymous user to suspend or go to shell should kick
> > the user off of the system (end the telnet session). It's been a while,
>
> I disagree, lynx should just ignore requests to suspend or go to
> shell as, especially for people not used to lynx and text based
That's what I meant to say. Lynx should ignore requests as you say,
but _if_ some clown finds a way to get around that, then it's best if
they have nothing to gain by getting out of (or crashing) Lynx.
> > but I don't remember Lynx even honoring "!" by the anonymous user other
> > than to say SPAWNING_DISABLED.
>
> Just tested this, and with -anonymous lynx will still quite happily
> spawn a shell. /* 2.8.4 */ ^^^^^
I don't remember it being that way originally. The pubLynx I used to run
did not allow shell-spawning; it gave a message to the effect that shell-
spawning was disabled. (I know because I did not translate any strings
which were not used, and that one was translated. [Prior to gettext.])
The last Lynx I had up for public access was 2.8.2. Unfortunately, I have
completely forgotten how I configured (or hacked) Lynx to not allow that.
It definitely should not be happening.
__Henry
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