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- From: john@math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Gopher and Security
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.155324.19094@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:53:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov22.155324.19094
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- Organization: Dept of Math, Northwestern Univ
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- Would it be possible (and reasonable) to have a command line flag for
- gopherd which, when set, would allow the server to return items of type
- 0 and 1 ONLY if these items are in a .link file or have a
- corresponding .cap file?
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- It seems like this might provide as much security as chroot without the
- hassle that goes with setting up local versions of standard stuff in
- the gopher directory. Would this be less secure than chroot? This
- scheme would also eliminate any problems with unwanted files being
- displayed.
-
- The down side is that every file would have to have a corresponding
- .cap file. I tend to do this anyway, but it would be fairly easy to
- automate the construction of .cap files (they could contain only the
- name line).
-
- While we're talking wish list, let me echo the comments made several
- times here earlier, that it would be much easier to maintain a gopher
- if all the .cap/* files for a directory were combined in a single file
- for each diretory which could also contain all the .link entries.
- Maybe for Gopher+ ?
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- John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University
- john@math.nwu.edu
-