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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: How to make Restrict Shell more safely?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.171440.10692@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:14:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.135639.1668@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, wvarga@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Wilson Varga) writes:
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- | 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.
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- Or you can use the menu system I posted to the net some years ago.
- However, if you give access to vi, unless you do something to vi to
- restrict it, vi will give access to a full unrestricted shell.
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