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In the hopes of giving this article wider visibility...

In article <3d5ef5$85q@hustle.rahul.net>, KevinSinclair@Computer.com writes:
|> Hello, 
|> 
|> Our school needs help from an Internet guru - we want to add a menu to 
|> our Internet account.
|> 
|> I am a parent helping out some local schools get access to the Internet.  
|> We have an ascii Internet account, similar to a Netcom shell account.  We 
|> want to have a menu come up when the kids logon, instead of putting them 
|> at the prompt.  This menu would offer them access to Pine, to certain 
|> newsgroups only, and to a special IRC server that is password-accessed 
|> and is separate from the regular global IRC.  We don't want them doing 
|> anything else.  When they finish Pine, for example, they would find 
|> themselves back in the menu.
|> 
|> Our system is sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1.  We have Perl here, so that would 
|> be a good choice.  But the main thing is that it be customizable, so that 
|> I can change it later.  I mainly need a start.  I can learn how to modify 
|> it.  And it must not be interruptable, like with control+z to put it into 
|> the background.  I would have to have access to the prompt, though... how 
|> would that work?  Some kind of secret password or something.
|> 
|> If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Kevin
|> 
|> Virtual:  Kevin@Computer.com <Kevin Jeffrey Sinclair>
|> Physical: San Carlos, CA USA <south of San Francisco> 

Some (not-so) elementary things you could try:

1) If you are a real good C guru, you can try writing your
own menu program and using it instead of /bin/sh
for each of the children's password entries.

2) You could try the same thing with a script, though
I don't know whether that would work.  Also, with a script
it may not be able to catch all interrupts.

3) Some Unicies have a restricted shell (rsh) which may
partially implement what you want; rsh will not allow you
to create any files outside of the current directory and
will not allow you to change the directory from within
the shell itself.  I don't know SunOS intimately so I can't
say whether SunOS has it.

Anyway, I'm reposting your message to some other
newsgroups, in the hopes that someone Out There
has more knowledge than I do.  And I know You're Out There... :-)

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