[comp.unix.shell] Help creating a restricted shell

[Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>]

I don't entirely agree with this (restricting users to a handful of
commands on the machine), but does anyone on this list have experience
with this?

I thought of making a simple script that would act as the login shell
and limit commands to the desired subset; would it be possible to
retain command line editing and filename completion in such a
scenario.

Thanks for any advice.

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From: Chesley McColl <ckm@cdc.noaa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Help creating a restricted shell
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:00:55 -0700
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.970114105954.12713D-100000@revelle>

Hi,

I have a couple machines on our LAN that I want users to only
be able to exec the simpilest of commands (ls,cp,cd,tar,...)
very similar to ftp, is there a simple way to do this?

Chesley

P.S. please reply back to ckm@cdc.noaa.gov THANKS ;-)

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