Re: lynx-dev Running Shell Commands off of Lynx

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, brian j. pardy wrote:

> [sent only to lynx-dev]
> 
> Might this be a feature, instead?
> 
> I'm not using anything like it right now, but I bet there is at
> least one person out there who is using an EDITOR variable of
> something along the lines of "cat %s | dosomethingtoit | vi -", 
> and expects it to work in all programs, not simply lynx.
> 
> If no one agrees on this (and I admit it's a huge stretch :) then
> perhaps a way to specify what editors a user is allowed to use, in
> lynx.cfg.  I don't really like that idea as it takes power away from
> the user, as well as basically forcing a disabling of the -cfg
> commandline switch for users as well.
> 
> The variables are intended to run arbitrary commands provided the
> user, I'm not quite sure it's lynx's job to check them.

I'm quite sure it's NOT lynx's job to check them.

> FWIW, if someone changes SYSTEM_MAIL and SYSTEM_MAIL_FLAGS in lynx.cfg
> (or their own personal copy, but this isn't really relevant for sites 
> using lynx as a restricted environment) the same thing can be done.

I actually have the following in my lynx.cfg:

   SYSTEM_MAIL:/usr/local/bin/lynxmailprompt.sh

 Klaus