[2789] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: A problem with Navigator's cache -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sat Aug 24 14:07:41 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: snorton@CHP.CA.GOV (Stephen Norton)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:36:23 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Mike.Bremford@mail.bl.uk, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <s21dc871.067@CHP.CA.GOV> from "Stephen Norton" at Aug 23, 96 03:02:45 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Stephen Norton wrote:
| Netscape offers an administrative kit for 3.0, which allows an
| administrator to hard code some of the options avalaible to users.
|
| The admin kit creates a netscape.lck file which is placed next to the
| executable and overides individual settings.
So the executable gets its own path name, and then locks for
$Netscapedir/netscape.lck?
cp /usr/local/bin/netscape /tmp
/tmp/netscape
sigh. If the program runs under the user's control, then the path to
the netscape.lck must be hardcoded and fully qualified, such as
/usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.lck
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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