Re: Menu-driven Shell

Jonathan Brown (jonathan@detoo.gisd.k12.mi.us)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:36:29 -0400 (EDT)

I am trying to resend this - this is the second time I have had this
error when trying to respond to e-mail from pm list
---------- Forwarded
message ---------- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:10:00 -0600
From: TORONTO/SHLTOR01/POSTMASTER <IMCEAMS-TORONTO_SHLTOR01_POSTMASTER@shl.com>
To: Jonathan Brown <jonathan@detoo.gisd.k12.mi.us>
Subject: Mail failure

[005] Mail retry count exceeded sending to:
TORONTO /SHLTCK01

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
Microsoft Mail v3.0 (MAPI 1.0 Transport) IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
From: Jonathan Brown
To: Jeffrey Aizley
Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
Subject: Re: menu-oriented shell account
Date: 1996-10-19 17:56
Priority: 3
Message ID: 502A90E4D229D0118A4F000000000001



This isn't menu oriented, but it did the job here -

Set the user to use something like //bin/rsh or /bin/rksh (restricted
bourne or restricted korn) shell. Then, you have to put in the
applications that they can use. They can't cd, and they can't directly
drop into another shell. I use the rksh. You will have to make sure
that in the programs that they can't press ! and get a shell prompt of
their choice. This can be a pain if you have a lot of programs that can
do that. I also created a new group that doesn't own anything anywhere
on the system, so they can't get access at group level.

Jonathan Brown

On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Jeffrey Aizley wrote:

> does anyone have a pre-written menu that I can compile
> under solaris which will allow shell users to do only the *basic*
> stuff but not actually allow them to access the shell prompt?
>
> (by the basic stuff I mean elm,telnet,ftp,lynx,gopher,tin)..
>
> getting sick of hackers..
>
> -jha@gis.net
>
>