Re: Banging out of Menus

In article <29hl61INNhvc@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> PMWAGES@delphi.com writes: > Is there any way to prevent users from shelling out ( banging out ) >of an informix menu with an exclamation point (!) ? Yes, redefine their environment, set (example uses Bourne-Shell Syntax) SHELL=/dev/null # for example You can do that by (1) modifying their .profile, if they would start with a normal shell and then exec(2) the isql process (2) or alternatively by writing a wrapper around the isql program, i.g. the one-liner (well, one and a half) #!/bin/sh SHELL=/dev/null isql Have fun (and be careful with job control!!! Good way of fooling a security configuration, type ^Z and you have a shell, most people only think of Interrupts, haha) -svb. -- Sebastian v. Bomhard, +49-89-298934, +49-89-296629 <svb@muc.de> St.-Anna-Str. 13, D-80538 Muenchen (Lehel) >>>>>>>>>>> The early bird catches the EARLY worm. <<<<<<<<<<<<