On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:46:52PM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Erik Reuter
> 
> ...
> 
> > I hope the changes involve not letting lynx run as root. That could be a
> > security problem.
> 
> Weeeelllll, that's a difficult one.  It'll run as whoever starts the Mailman
> process.

Can you find the mailman line where lynx is started? If so, change it to
something like

# su safe_user lynx [lynx arguments]

Then it will run as "safe_user", obviously you should put there some
user who has the minimum amount of permissions necessary to get the lynx
job done.

There may be a better way to fork a process under another user, but
that's the only one I know off the top of my head. If that doesn't work,
let me know and I'll dig for another one.



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