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- From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
- Subject: Re: creating restricted shell environments
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.002925.23457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <3434@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> <15p5rpINNnk2@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:29:25 GMT
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- In <15p5rpINNnk2@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
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- >In article <3434@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> ral@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Rebecca A. Littleton) writes:
- >>I would like to create restricted shell environments
- >>for some of our users.
- >> Does Sun include such a shell in SunOS?
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- >Yes. It's not documented, but /usr/lib/rsh is the restricted Bourne shell
- >(it's just a link to /usr/bin/sh, and Bourne shell restricts itself
- >whenever it's invoked by a name beginning with "r").
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- Yeeees, but what good is it? Give folks vi and they just need to
- ":set shell=/bin/csh" to get a shell... Or via rn, elm, etc. etc...
- Not to mention, rsh is little more than a nuisance to users, hardly
- very restricted. What's the point?
- --
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- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
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- "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped"
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