restricted shell sought
Alan Barclay
alan at ukpoit.co.uk
Fri May 3 18:09:38 AEST 1991
In article <JC.91Apr25135941 at raven.bu.edu> jc at raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:
>
>Well, this is definately sometimes necessary. Take the following example:
>
>We have two full disks containing only data for our lab. We need
>to allow read access to this data, but nothing else. We don't have
>the disk space to simply copy the data over to the ftp files. So,
>basically, restricted shells *are* needed for special cases. Maybe
>I am forgetting something, but I don't think so. *8-)
>
Why not mount the disks as read/only, this will give kernel level protection,
must better than mucking around with restricted shells.
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