Pulling out the Root: Netscape Security

[Earl Young]

     Pose this question to the Sales people at Netscape.  Their support 
     people are typically pretty busy, but their Sales people have been 
     very good about answering such things for us.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Pulling out the Root:  Netscape Security
Author:  notdpa at unix1.sncc.lsu.edu at INTERNET
Date:    1/27/97 11:34 AM


Hello all,
     
Any one with any ideas on hiding the directory contents of a PC's hard 
drive from Netscape?  With either an open file command or keying in a 
local drive url, folks can see all sorts of files and get all sorts of 
ideas for hacking thru security.  Can't hide all the files, got to run 
them and Fortres & some thorough Read-Only's should help, but Fortres is 
not perfect.
     
On our webserver, cgi scripts include an index.cgi which keeps folks 
from seeing the server's 0directory listings.
     
Short of installing a web server w/ cgi on each of our Win95 pc's, 
reasonable any work-arounds? 
     
Thanks,
David
     
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