Re: Simple UNIX Text Editor

This really belongs in a comp.unix.* thread, but: In article <2e2gqf$7iq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Atul Patankar <apatanka@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >There appears to be no easy way of preventing a user from escaping to the shell >from within either "vi" or "emacs", contrary to what I had said in my earlier >post. Emacs is probably particularly tricky for that because it has so many modes and function which perform shell escapes and the like, although I imagine that a determined administrator with a good understanding of elisp could manage it. A good all-purpose solution would probably be simply to chgrp the various shells on your system to a particular group, change the permissions on each to 750 (remove world read and execute permission), and then assign only users who are permitted to have shell access to that group. -- ____ Tim Pierce / Richard got married to a figure skater / \\ / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu / and he bought her a dishwasher and a \\/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / coffee perkulator.