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From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Subject: Re: restricted shell, is one available?
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 15:52:47 GMT
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In article <D0vvBI.EBI@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>,
Brian -Paco- Hope <paco@Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>On other systems I've used, there has been an rsh or some other
>nice restricted shell that doesn't allow the user to do much.

On FreeBSD, you might consider using /usr/bin/rev.  It seems to
satisfy your requirement.  :-)

--k