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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Restricted Shell?
Date: 8 Apr 1997 09:40:51 GMT
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In article <3344939f.9541354@news.hiwaay.net>,
	whuff@airnet.net (Walter Huff) writes:
> I need to provide a user restricted access to a FreeBSD machine which
> I administer.  Is there a PD version of rksh or rsh (NOT the Remote
> Shell program) which is easily portable to the FreeBSD platform out
> there somewhere?  I've tried surfing for it, but it's buried deeply if
> it's out there at all.

There's a port of pdksh you can use.  When you install, it doesn't
create rksh, but you can just

    cd /usr/local/bin
    ln ksh rksh

> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> - Walter

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