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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Prohibiting Shell escapes from within NN
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.115156.29745@me.toronto.edu>
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Keywords: secure environment
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:51:56 GMT

Has anyone hacked NN to disallow shell escapes?  If NN was to be used
in a BBS environment, it would be nice if you could stop people from
getting to the shell, vi, etc...

"#ifdef RESTRICT_SHELL" in the appropriate places would be nice.

Trying to avoid some work...
--
Doug Eastick -- eastick@me.utoronto.ca