Re: Netscape.ad file
If you make the changes that you want, then copy the file to
/usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/Netscape, the changes will show up the next
time you invoke Netscape. This is fine for changing text and things like
that, but eliminating menubars has proven to be a little more complicated.
In the options menu there are menu selections to show/hide the various tool
bars, i.e. Menubar, Toolbar, Location, DirectoryButtons, etc. Select the
menus that you wish to hide, and then select 'Save Options'. The menubars
have now disappeared!
Well, almost. If you chose the "Show Menubar" option you can't select the
'Save Options' button because it is in the Menubar which we just got rid
of. What's a poor engineer to do? Now use the netscape -remote method to
save the options. Just enter 'netscape -remote 'saveOptions()' at the
command line. Now, everytime that you call up netscape it should be running
in 'Kiosk' mode.
To get the menubar back, I think that if you shutdown netscape, then edit
the file /.netscape/preferences and change the line "SHOW_MENUBAR:
False" to "SHOW_MENUBAR: True", then your menubar should reappear.
I am not sure whether hot-keys are still active when the menubar disappears.
If experimentation proves that they still work, then you can disable them by
using the Netscape.ad file.
John Windle
Foxboro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karppi, Dan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
> Subject: RE: Helpfile Viewer
>
> Joe,
>
> I downloaded an executable version of Htmlview.tcl and it requires a
> "wish
> interpreter" and runs using elm or pine programs which we don't have.
>
>
> Corey,
>
> I have started Netscape as user "browser" in group "browser" and it does
> obey file permissions. Unfortunately there are thousands of world
> readable
> and writable files in the system. I really wouldn't want to start
> changing
> permissions on all of these files.
>
>
> John,
>
> I'll try out that option and see how it works. As far as the Netscape.ad
> file, I have edited that file and nothing changes. It appears that this
> file is used when the netscape source code is compiled and we get Netscape
> already compiled. There are some comments in this file that refer to
> copying some of the configurations in Netscape.ad to the .Xdefaults file
> but
> they don't recommend it.
>
>
>
> Dan Karppi CCST
> Falconbridge Limited
> Smelter Complex
> Falconbridge, Ontario
> Canada
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>
> Phone: (705) 693-2761 ext. 3881
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Windle, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:58 AM
> To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
> Subject: RE: Helpfile Viewer
>
>
> There's a really interesting configuration file in the netscape home
> directory named Netscape.ad.
>
> For instance, it says that if you issue the command:
> netscape -remote "openURL(http://foxboro.com)"
>
> It doesn't open up a new version of Netscape, but finds an existing
> instance
> moves it to the foreground and directs it to that URL. Useful for more
> quickly bringing up help screens to an operator.
>
> Even more interesting for the present discussion is that this file
> contains
> menubar configuration settings. If the whole Location data entry field
> could be removed (and others) then the above 'netscape -remote' method
> could
> be securely used for operator help screens.
>
> Perhaps some brave soul could do some experimenting and get back to the
> rest
> of us.
>
> John Windle
> Foxboro
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Corey R Clingo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:46 AM
> > To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
> > Subject: RE: Helpfile Viewer
> >
> > Dan-
> >
> > You might try something like:
> >
> > su - unprivileged_user_id -c netscape
> >
> > This is not quite as good as chroot but at least keeps them from
> > overwriting
> > files.
> >
> > Of course the real fix is for Foxboro to modify their software so it
> > doesn't
> > have to run as root.....
> >
> > Corey Clingo
> > Sr. Engineer
> > BASF Corporation
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Karppi, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/09/2001 11:33:45
> AM
> >
> > Please respond to Foxboro DCS Mail List
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' <Foxboro
> > cc:
> > Subject: RE: Helpfile Viewer
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave and Tim,
> >
> > I have already installed and am using Netscape Navigator 4.72 for
> Solaris
> > 2.5.1 and it does the job. Only one major problem with it is that the
> > entire Solaris file system is not secure. The user can surf through the
> > entire file system by entering "/" in the location bar and then browsing
> > from the root directory. Also by using the FILE...SAVE_AS function from
> > the
> > menu bar, the user can overwrite any writable file with the contents of
> > the
> > displayed HTML page. This is because Netscape is running as root. I've
> > tried to secure it by 'chroot'ing Netscape but haven't been successful.
> > Windows versions of Netscape are capable of running in a "Kiosk" mode
> > where
> > the toolbars and hot keys can be disabled but unfortunately this is not
> > yet
> > available in UNIX versions. I was hoping to find an easier way of
> > displaying
> > our help files or maybe you have already found a solution to Netscape's
> > security problem. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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