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Re: anonymous web pages (Was: SurfWatch)



On Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:35:38 -0500 (EST) [email protected] (Bruce Zambini) 
wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Mark M. wrote:
>>From your public html directory, try 'ln -s /etc/passwd passwords.txt'.
>
>Then add a link to your homepage.... 

Er, I believe CERN, NCSA, and N*tscape all disallow following symbolic links by 
default for precisely this reason. There is a follow-symlinks-for-owner-only 
option that we recently turned on.

-rich
 Institute for Ernst Zundel Revisionism
 http://www.c2.org/~rich/Press/Swedish/