[TUHS] "Webster's Second on the Head of a Pin"?

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 1/1/25 1:11 PM, Rik Farrow wrote:
> I wonder what Reeds meant. I know there are issues.

I've wondered myself. I am curious how many of these issues POSIX
addresses (and bash, too, of course).

> For example, the 3B2 I 
> administered for a while in the late 80s had multiple accounts with rsh, 
> the restricted shell, as the login shell. That was okay, unless you used su 
> and then had access to a root shell.

That's an administrator problem. Part of setting up a restricted shell
environment is creating a directory of necessary binaries and setting
PATH appropriately.

Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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