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From: boberg@june.cs.washington.edu (Bruce Oberg)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: restricted gnu-emacs?
Keywords: too much power
Message-ID: <6065@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 88 22:03:30 GMT
Reply-To: boberg@uw-june.UUCP (Bruce Oberg)
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hi folks

how hard is it to get gnu emacs into a "restricted" mode (that is, the
user can only change certain files, can't create any, can't start up
a shell, etc...) ? i'd like to use gnu-emacs as the shell for a
programming contest, but need to be able to severely restrict the users
system-wide abilites while still maintaining a flexible editing
environment. any ideas? remember, i'm new to gnu.

thanks

bruce oberg
boberg@cs.washington.edu