Subject: [Q] Pine as UNIX login shell?

From: [email-masked] (Eric Brower)
Date: 14 Mar 1996 16:24:22 GMT

I am researching the possibility of using Pine as a login shell for system
users.  Naturally, I am concerned with a few features of Pine.

Does anyone have an example of a pine.conf.fixed file from a UNIX
system?  In particular, I want to be sure that users cannot suspend
the process, shell-out or modify their environment.  As well, users
should not be able to modify many of the configuration items...

Any experiences would be helpful...

Thanks for your time!
Eric

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From: Tony Iannotti <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 07:18:15 -0500 (EST)

We use a restricted version of pine this way, though I recompiled it to 
use a different file for the fixed config, as we have both clients and 
staff using pine on the same machine. (Silly, I know, but "economical")

Disable suspend, Pipe-to-command, and alternate editors, and you should be
OK, I think. I also set it such that they cannot alter their configs at
all, though that may be too draconian. ;-)