From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10806 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1997 20:38:23 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Jan 1997 20:38:23 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA13010; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:44:22 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:32:35 -0500 (EST) Sender: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: [comp.unix.shell] Help creating a restricted shell Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado X-Attribution: mb From: Mark Borges Date: 15 Jan 1997 13:33:54 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.80/XEmacs 19.15 Resent-Message-ID: <"Vx_GX3.0.V63.YxJto"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/605 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Chesley McColl 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: 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 ;-) ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- -mb-