[ic] Tips and Tricks: Locking down your system

msquared msquared@digitalwizards.com.au
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:52:02 +0800


On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:32:45AM -0500, Mike Heins wrote:

>   * Set "NoAbsolute Yes" in interchange.cfg, it prevents [file /some/dir]
>     or [include /some/rogue/file] from being used. NOTE: This is the
>     default starting in IC 4.7.x.

Does this option also prevent ".." in relative pathnames?  If you don't
stop someone from including "..", then you can't really keep them inside
a particular part of the directory tree (which is what I assume the
NoAbsolute is designed for).

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