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Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work
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Benjamin C. W. Sittler |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work |
Date: |
Fri, 16 May 1997 11:15:48 -0600 (MDT) |
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508 wrote:
> > > One final (I hope!) point: having got proxy authorisation to work
> > > alongside access authorisation, I suppose there ought to be an extra
> > > argument to the lynx command of the form "-pauth=id:pw".
> >
> > I'll merely suggest that this is a BAD IDEA(tm).
> >
> > The reason: in the case of UNIX, it exposes the "id" *and* the "password"
> > to anyone on the local machine, who can run 'ps'.
>
> I agree, but it appears to be the only way at present to use lynx to access
> protected documents non-interactively. A more elegant solution would be to
> provide an option to dump/load the authorisation data structures (hostname,
> realm, uid, password, URL-mask), effectively allowing lynx to "remember" this
> information between sessions. This would, of course, require a file with
> suitable permissions (ie none, except to the owner), probably in the user's
> home directory (did anyone say ".lynxrc"?). A stop-gap solution would be to
> get lynx to modify its arglist to hide the sensitive argument(s), but maybe
> this can't be done on all platforms?
A slightly more secure method is to store the authorization information in
environment variables (for UNIX, djgpp, and Win32, at any rate -- not sure
about VMS.) Environment variables are not visible with the `ps' command on
most systems. Perhaps LYNXAUTH is a good name?
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, (continued)
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Robert Bonomi, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Al Gilman, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, T.E.Dickey, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work,
Benjamin C. W. Sittler <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Greg Marr, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Robert Bonomi, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/16