restricted shell sought

[Alan Barclay]

In article <JC.91Apr25135941 at raven.bu.edu> jc at raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:
>
>Well, this is definately sometimes necessary.  Take the following example:
>
>We have two full disks containing only data for our lab.  We need
>to allow read access to this data, but nothing else. We don't have 
>the disk space to simply copy the data over to the ftp files.  So,
>basically, restricted shells *are* needed for special cases.  Maybe
>I am forgetting something, but I don't think so.  *8-)
>

Why not mount the disks as read/only, this will give kernel level protection,
must better than mucking around with restricted shells.

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