disallowing subshell in More

Geoff Kuenning geoff at desint.UUCP
Tue Feb 12 14:22:44 AEST 1985


In article <362 at men1.UUCP> ron at men1.UUCP (Ron Flax) writes:

>Here's the senario, I have a menu that allows certain users to have root access
>to several functions (unjamming the print queue, archiving & restoring files, 
>etc).  One of the options is to allow the user to get a listing of a tape
>archive to the screen (piped through More) which of course allows the user to
>type a '!sh<return>' and viola! a root shell.

How about piping the listing into

	su real-user-id -c "more"

-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	Unix Consultant
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