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From: ault@rachel.its.rpi.edu (Jim Ault)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Turning off shell escape from SMIT
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Date: 7 Mar 91 05:38:37 GMT
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Is there any way to turn off the "shell escape" mechanism in SMIT?
We are planning to try to give a user the ability to do installs via
SMIT, but we don't want to allow (root) shell escapes.  Are there any
command options to SMIT that will do this?

Please reply directly to me via email.  Thanks.