I believe this are some problems with lynx while ran in the vsd as admin. From all the testing I have done has revealed this. When you are logged in as admin to the vsd and lynx to a website to download a file, the file is downloaded as being root owned with, admin as the group.
 
Downloaded link: ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/net/ftp/client/lftp/lftp-2.4.1.lsm
Suggested file name: lftp-2.4.1.lsm
[admin@testvsd test]$ ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Aug 21 14:05 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 admin    admin        4096 Aug 21 14:04 ..
-rw-------    1 root     admin        1376 Aug 21 14:05 lftp-2.4.1.lsm
 
So basically now that the file is there you can not touch it sense admin has no privileges to this.
 
[admin@testvsd test]$ rm lftp-2.4.1.lsm
rm: lftp-2.4.1.lsm: permission denied: Numerical result out of range
[admin@testvsd test]$ cat lftp-2.4.1.lsm
cat: lftp-2.4.1.lsm: Permission denied
 
The one other big problem with lynx is that even though its writing as root to the file, it does not understand any other privileges. To be able to download a file you must be in a directory owned by admin, meaning if your in /home/nut/
 
With a directory structure like this
 
drwxr-xr-x    4 nut      nut          4096 Aug 21 14:08 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 admin    admin        4096 Aug 21 13:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 nut      nut          4096 Aug 17 15:56 doc
drwxr-xr-x    4 nut      nut          4096 Aug 17 15:57 www
 
And you try to download something your going to get a
Alert!: Cannot write to file.
 
Its not understanding that admin has higher privileges then nut. Any help on these couple problems would be appreciated. Thanks

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