Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!dylan From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to prevent VI from getting a shell? Message-ID: <1990Sep22.093002.25477@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 22 Sep 90 09:30:02 GMT References: <501@trux.UUCP> <570@DIALix.UUCP> <1990Sep18.163019.14294@eci386.uucp> <13775:Sep2104:58:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 14 In article <13775:Sep2104:58:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >This just isn't true. All you have to do is break the user's !, Q, and : >keys. This turns from a joke into an easy pipe if you have pty. Or you could use a hammer to break their ! and Q keys. That usually works Then they can't use them at all. Even better break their fingers then they can't type at all. Dylan. -- Matthew J Farwell | Email: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group, PO Box 360,| ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan Harrow HA1 4LQ England | CONNECT - Usenet Access in the UK!! Phone: +44 81-863-1191 | Sun? Don't they make coffee machines?