One thing you could do is chown the lynx binary to nobody
chown nobody:nobody /usr/bin/lynx
then setuid the bin,
chmod +s /usr/bin/lynx
this will cause lynx to run as user 'nobody' regardless of who starts
it..
Robert Soros
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> Is there a way to use lynx as the user nobody. Or is this a bad idea ?
>
> I need to convert a URL (php'ed) to ASCII, and tried to run lynx from
> within a PHP script. Since Apache runs as the user nobody. I've
> found that lynx tries to create temp files that can't be opened.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> TIA
>
> -pete
>
>
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