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From: d88-jwn@astro.ufl.edu (Johan Wahlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: What Restricted Shells are available?
Keywords: 386bsd, sh, shell, restrict
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Date: 3 Nov 93 20:54:23 GMT
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Hi,
 I would like to have my system open to a number of people letting
them have a restricted number of commands available.
 Specifically I would like them not to be able to chdir above their
$HOME and also not to be able to run programs but the ones I supply
them with.
 I've heard about chroot but it seems to me like a lot of trouble plus
you need copies of "everything". I figured that a restricted shell of
some sort would be the ticket. Now does anyone of you know of any
existing such shells?
 Regards,
 /Johan