Re: Restricted Shells or Menu Based Shells

From: Saint Aardvark (aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com)
Date: 02/22/02 

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:38:11 -0800
From: Saint Aardvark <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
To: Terrence Martin <twm139@its.to>

Terrence Martin disturbed my sleep to write:
> 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.

I've seen Lynx used for this purpose. From what I recall of the
configuration file, there's lots of options for restricting access,
commands, etc. 

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