Re: Restricted Shells or Menu Based Shells

From: Steffen Dettmer (steffen@dett.de)
Date: 03/07/02 

Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:33:13 +0100
From: Steffen Dettmer <steffen@dett.de>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

* s@avoidant.org wrote on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:23 -0500:
> > 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.

Yes, exactly, a non-restricted local shell. But this is unwanted
in a restricted (local) environment. As result, you cannot make
the ftp client avialable in this way.

oki,

Steffen 

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