On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Jon McCain wrote:
> All of this has gotten me to thinking about another flaw in the way I
> have things set up. I'm preventing users from getting to a $ by running
> a menu from their profile.
>
> exec /usr/bin/menu
>
> This works fine since the exec causes menu to become their shell
> process.
>
> But some smart user could get around this by using pscp to upload their
> own .bash_profile. Even if I fix it so I have them chroot'd on their
> home would not prevent this since this file is in their home.
>
> But changing permissions on the .bash_profile so they don't own it (and
> not in their group) should take care of that problem. They can read it
> all they want, just not change it.
Why not change the users' shell to /usr/bin/menu?
Bye,
Chris
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