Re: Restricted Shells or Menu Based Shells

From: Brian Clifton (brian@omegadm.co.uk)
Date: 03/07/02 

From: "Brian Clifton" <brian@omegadm.co.uk>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:31:37 -0000

Just trying to follow the contradictory views on this thread...

Even if a user could do this, wouldn't disabling anonymous FTP be a simple answer or am I missing something?

brian

> Steffen Dettmer wrote:
>
> > The standard linux ftp client drops a shell if you say
> > !/bin/bash
> > IIRC. You can type any command after "!".
>
> Drops you to a shell on your local box, not the remote one. At least in
> my experience.

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