Re: how to prevent bang (!) escapes
jmumford@clark.net wrote:
: Does anyone know of a way to prevent users
: from using the bang (!) character to do shell
: escapes from Informix tools? Or unix workarounds
: to this problem?
: Thanx
: Jim Mumford
SHELL=/dev/null;
export $SHELL;
dbaccess.............
another alternative is to create a file rdbaccess:
$cat rdbaccess
SHELL=/dev/null
dbaccess
This will not screw up your shell variable like the "export" method. The
/dev/null shell will only be in effect while running rdbaccess.
Joe
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