Subject: How to disable an execution of other programs?

From: [email-masked] (igor)
Date: 15 May 1996 16:10:41 -0500

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I have the following question:

MY USERS HAVE SOME SORT OF MENU BASED RESTRICTED SHELL
and Pine is included there. But they are able to run other
applications describing them as an external editor.
Q.: is there any restricted version of Pine which doe not allow to do
that?
I'm to lazy to browse Pine sources and find those places
responsible for the execution :)))

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Igor Aronov
Kyrgyzstan Freenet Network Adm.
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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:32:56 +0100

On 15 May 1996, igor wrote:

:> :
:>I have the following question:
:>
:>MY USERS HAVE SOME SORT OF MENU BASED RESTRICTED SHELL
:>and Pine is included there. But they are able to run other
:>applications describing them as an external editor.
:>Q.: is there any restricted version of Pine which doe not allow to do
:>that?
:>I'm to lazy to browse Pine sources and find those places
:>responsible for the execution :)))

You use the pine.conf.fixed features to disable alternate editor.
We have a similar system, and have set all the editor features to "no",
and also set a value for "editor".

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