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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Restricted Shell Date: 26 Jan 1996 23:36:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4eboh4$ke2@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e5qpf$5ds@news.service.uci.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ssapozni@rex.lib.uci.edu (Sam Sapoznick) writes: > Is there a pre-compiled Restricted Shell available for BSD 2.0.5 or > 2.1 anywhere? I already looked on ftp.freebsd.org. Source could do > if there's no binary. Also, isn't the restricted shell a somewhat > standard utility? Could that be included perhaps in the next FreeBSD > release? No. No. No. (You've got three question marks there. :) The so-called restricted shell is mostly being used as a security hole, so you don't really want to have it anyway. 98 % of the people asking for it intend to use it as an (in)secure login shell, and that's exactly the least suitable purpose of it. Create a chroot'ed environment if you care for security. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)