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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: who owns what |
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Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:09:46 -0400 (EDT) |
> 981008 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > to find out who does own things, you can use 'ls':
> > eg cd / ls -lad . cd /homes ls -lad . cd /homes/purslow ls -lad .
>
> the result of those commands is:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 32 root sys 1024 Sep 30 12:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 99328 Oct 6 17:24 .
> drwx--x--x 9 purslow user 512 Oct 7 15:36 .
hmm. perhaps it's the link-to-link scenario. I'll make a stab at that
for the next patch (would like to get feedback on nsl-fork first, but if
I complete this change first, will put out the patch...)
> > lxstat(2, "/homes/purslow", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0755, st_size=18, ...}) = 0
>
> what is lxstat() ? ie is it in Lynx or part of the shell/kernel/what ?
no - lxstat is an internal name for your system's stat/lstat functions.
(there's probably some upcoming standard that governs the name, but I
don't know what it is).
> my reward for laboring at a problem caused -- inadvertently, i know --
> on behalf of people running anonymous sites
> -- see Archive Sep [445 622 769] Aug [11] --
> is to learn more about how UNIX & related software work ...
>
> I (capitalised for once) have no security problem,
> nor do the majority of Lynx users & installers:
> these problems arise ONLY for sites with anonymous users.
> IMHO NO-ONE should allow anonymous users at a site with non-anonymous users;
> better still, site managers should set up free shell userids
> for people with valid library/student/etc cards:
> miscreants can then be identified & expelled.
>
> so back to solving the Lynx code problem ... (smile).
no problem
> SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : address@hidden
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