Restricted vi was Re: Vi help needed

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From: nicholas.hounsome
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 09:45

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From article <1992Oct28.115404.20844@cas.org>, by lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden):
> In article <719168508snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
> :In article <"16177.Thu.Oct.8.06 nickp@BNR.CA writes:
> :
> :> from vi to> Unix, so we currently have an .exrc file (owner=root,
> :> group=root, perms=644) in> the user's home directory which maps CTRL-C &
> :> CTRL-Z to ESC and sets 'shell' to> 'NOSHELL'. However, we've found that
> :> the knowledgeable user can still shell out> by resetting shell to
> :> /bin/sh or similar.

How about using chroot?
I have never personaly used it (you have to have super user access) but
it seems like it would do the job ,posiibly in conjunction with
a loacl bin directory.

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