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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Restricted shells
Keywords: security shells
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.201007.23475@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 20:10:07 GMT
References: <8819@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <8819@milton.u.washington.edu> surge@u.washington.edu (Jonathan Sari) writes:
>Does anyone know of any public domain restricted-access shells that I
>could get my hands on? 

>What I mean is a shell that only allows execution of files in a certain
>path, and only allows access to files in the user's own directory.

I was under the impression that if you created a link to /bin/sh named
/bin/rsh you would have exactly what you want....


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