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- From: anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
- Subject: Re: How to make Restrict Shell more safely?
- Message-ID: <C0GsMn.50n@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>
- Organization: Griffith University.
- References: <cslee.225.726145569@pds.nchu.edu.tw> <1993Jan4.194925.7364@crd.ge.com> <1993Jan4.200732.7262@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1993Jan6.135639.1668@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:35:10 GMT
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- wvarga@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Wilson Varga) writes:
- | There is a commercial product, CENTRUS UX, that solves all of this by
- | keeping end-users within a menu system. What the resrticted class of
- | end-users is permitted to do/not do is entirely under the control of
- | the system administrator. Access to any of the unix shells is also
- | effectively eliminated, without restricting the functionality of
- | applications such as vi. Contact the company directly for more
- | information. I know that CENTRUS is currently available for HP-UX, but
- | the company is seeking to compile for other versions of unix.
- | Contact uss@uii.com.
-
- If you are runing X windows. You can very easly provide a `guest'
- account. Just setup a `.xsession' and `.twmrc' file for that account with
- a menu system, or some program launcher like bricons, which only provides
- a menu of programs that that user is allowed to use. If you do not provide
- access to a xterm runing a shell or a editor, the user can not run
- anything you do not provide via menu.
-
- Text base programs can be provided by runing them in a xterm directly IE:
-
- xterm -g 80x40 -T Eliza -n Eliza -e eliza &
-
- You do not even have to provide a valid shell in the passwd file, which
- prevents non-xwindow access, and causes normal xterm logins to fail
- anyway.
-
- We use this here and Griffith Univeristy to Setup a guest account for
- the public on the University's Openday.
-
-
- Anthony Thyssen - (SysProg @ Griffith University) anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
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