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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Secure (regular) Scripts_
Message-ID: <1989Dec22.103934.4896@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Dec 89 10:39:34 GMT
References: <9100020@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <562@mwtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath
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In article <562@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>You should *very* strongly consider, to let those unprotected guest
>logins run in a 'chroot'-ed environment. There were some recent
>postings, explaining how this could be done without any programming,
>if you place a '*' in the 'shell'-field of "/etc/passwd". (I did not

Can any kind soul mail me a copy of the postings to which Martin refers?
I missed them, the topic is relevant to a server we are trying to build
on a Sun 'server' (console-less workstation), and they have aged out and
vanished at Bath.

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