Restricted Shells or Menu Based Shells

From: Terrence Martin (twm139@its.to)
Date: 02/20/02 

Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:23:21 -0700 (MST)
From: Terrence Martin <twm139@its.to>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

Can anyone recommend a good restricted or menu based shell?

What I am looking for is a shell that will allow users to run a small set
of commands. For example

pine for reading mail
passwd for changing their password
a .forward script (custome most likely) to set a new .forward.

Anyone have anything they like to use? I know pine is a bit of a hassle as
it can be used to run external commands, so I might skip that one, but
definitely the passwd and .forward script editor.

Cheers,

Terrence

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