Subject: Pine Administration Question - RE:Passwd Blockout

From: Vincenzo Bochicchio *Pine Admin* <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:16:01 -0400 (EDT)

I just installed pine on a new AIX box where it's sole purpose will be for
dumb terminal email and no shell access. Is it possible (without
re-compiling) to take out the <SETUP> --> <N-ewPassword> feature so my
users cannot chanage their password? Should I just install an older
version that does not have this capability? 

Thanks!

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From: bkho <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:48:50 +0800

> version that does not have this capability?

  How do you deal with  <SETUP> -- <Printer>?  it  allow user to set up
shell commands.
  Also the user can change the feature-list through <SETUP> --
<Configure>? I tried to own
  the .pinerc by root. Then, after I press <B> at Help Menu, I can't
exit by pressing CTL-C.

Fiona

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:49:42 +0100 (BST)

> How do you deal with <SETUP> -- <Printer>?  it allow user to set up

Pine provides two systemwide configuration files:

	pine.conf
	pine.conf.fixed

Whenever any one starts Pine it configures itself by reading these, the
user's own .pinerc file, and any command line options.

Entries in the pine.conf file are merely defaults; a user can change or
override them in their own settings file or on the command line.

Entries in the pine.conf.fixed file cannot be changed in this way however.
If you want to remove the ability to alter a variable's value (such as
those associated with printing) set them in the pine.conf.fixed file (we
usually set them in pine.conf, and then merely copy the relevant lines
acrosds to pine.conf.fixed for any we want to "fix").

> <Configure>? I tried to own the .pinerc by root. Then, after I press <B>
> at Help Menu, I can't exit by pressing CTL-C.

You can remove access to the Setup command by including the following
feature-list item in the relevant systemwide configuration file:

	disable-config-cmd

There are some other commands like this you might find useful too:

	disable-default-in-bug-report
	disable-keyboard-lock-cmd
	disable-password-cmd
	disable-update-cmd
	disable-signature-edit-cmd

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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