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I wonder if there is a standard Rails way to redirect from an action back to a previously viewed page. As a quick fix I created two little methods in the controllers/application.rb. Does this seem like an ok way to go? Thanks, Peter class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def i_was_here session[:i_was_here] = request.env[''REQUEST_URI''] end def redirect_to_where_i_was redirect_to session[:i_was_here] end end

...un in setuid or setgid enviroment (e.g. typical XFree86 installation has XF86_* installed setuid root), local users can exploit a "feature" of XKB implementation to execute arbitrary commands with the extra privileges. Quick vulnerability check: $ Xserver -xkbdir ''id > /tmp/I_WAS_HERE;'' [exit X server] $ grep root /tmp/I_WAS_HERE && echo ''Gotcha!'' Quick fix: 1. as usual chmod u-s,g-s all installed Xserver binaries (*) 2. use xdm or a SAFE and PARANOID wrapper to start Xserver (*) and unsafe or not-paranoid-enough setuid/setgid wrappers...