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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: How to make Restrict Shell more safely?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 01:55:35 -0500
- Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- References: <cslee.225.726145569@pds.nchu.edu.tw> <1993Jan4.194925.7364@crd.ge.com> <1993Jan4.200035.7840@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1993Jan4.200035.7840@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >Followups please note any major holes in this (I've run it for years, so
- >I probably have a fix I didn't mention).
-
- Hmm. Is vi part of the /guest/bin environment? If so, all the user
- has to do is "vi foo", then do ":set shell=/bin/sh" and ":!/bin/sh".
- Presto, they have an unrestricted shell.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-