Protecting against downloads

heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com
Tue Sep 18 01:35:14 AEST 1990


In article <epeterso.653316195 at houligan> epeterson at encore.com writes:
>
>All in all, it ends up boiling down to the question "Why do you want
>to give your users shell access?"  To let them use the tools on the
>system to develop their own programs?  To learn Unix?  To experiment
>with various applications?  How far do you trust them?  What's your
>policy towards shell access?

What's a "public access unix" without shell access?  I want to provide
access for all of the reasons you mentioned here.  If I wanted to 
continue to ONLY allow access via a menu-driven program, I'd have no
reason to switch from my current dos bbs.

bill


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