[195] in World Wide Web
server changes, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Thu Dec 23 07:41:02 1993
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: webmaster@MIT.EDU, www@MIT.EDU
Cc: shabby@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 07:40:21 EST
I recently did a couple of things:
1) I installed the new server home page yesterday.
Lots of thanks to Jessie for her changes and to everyone else who
made suggestions.
Feel free to flame me if you think we did it all wrong. =)
2) Martha and I installed a direct Dilbert feed from the news server!
No one needs to do conversion by hand any more (unless, of course,
something mysteriously breaks).
3) Fixed a security problem with the AFS gateway. Before the fix,
anyone with AFS access could read any world-readable file on the
server machine by creating a symlink pointing to "/".
Most of the fix was a chunk of code I stole from Marc's afsint.pl.
Access to AFS files shouldn't be noticeably slower.
Comments are always appreciated. ;)
Feel free to ask me about details.
--bert
