Re: LYNX-DEV Novice Problems

[ELCHONON EDELSON]

On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, John aka DearOldDad wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Donald W. King wrote: ... in part ...
> >      I am a member of the support group for the local freenet.  I have
> > a good grasp of Unix but have little knowledge of the intricacies of the
> > internet. ... ...
> >      I have noticed that other servers have numbers before their links
> > which can be used rather than incessant use of the up and down arrow keys.
> > How does one configure lynx in this way.
> 
> lynx docs are simply html docs and the tag for numbering the links is
> <ol> which means ordered link, end it with </ol>.

It doesnt sound to me lie that is what is being asked here. It sounds
to me like Mr. King is asking about option that in my lynx shows up as
"Keypad as arrows or numbered links" where if "numbered links" is set,
you can type in the number for a link to select it, instead of using
the up and down arrows. Mr. King, press 'o' from inside lynx to get
to the options page, it should be there somewhere.

> >      The final problem is with users reading local files which we would
> > prefer they do not see (eg. /etc/passwd).  We are in the process of 
> > installing shadow passwords but there are other files which are a
> > security hazard.  Is there a way of allowing only .htm or .html files
> > to be read by users (other than anonymous users).
> 
> This is a much bigger problem, but if you are familiar with unix as
> you say, the solution is simple.  All files in a public directory
> should be assigned the correct file permissions.  DOS calls that
> attributes, unix calls it permissions.  They are 1 read, 2 write, 3
> execute, and can be set for a owner, b group, c all ... so that's 9
> combinations of permissions.  Typically public files should be set so
> the owner (that's you) has read write execute permission, others have
> only read permission (there are exceptions, ie counters need public
> write and execute permissions).
> 
> If you are unix literate you should know how to do this, if not, it's
> too lengthy to explain here, and is also off topic for this group
> (list).  Hope this helps.  BYE.  Any ? I would be glad to reply by
> private email.

Again, it sounds like he's asking about LYNX's security provisions,
not about UNIX's. Check out the -restrctions command-line option, Mr. King

> John

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