Devin Brown muttered: > I'm a sysadmin of a Linux server in which users telnet (or ssh) into shells > using rbash so they can only execute progams I want them to execute. > right now the only E-Mail client I give them access to is Pine because Mutt > has a function where you can execute a shell command. > If the command is /bin/bash the user is given a regular, unrestricted > shell. I'd like to be able to give my users access to Mutt, but not > unless that function can be disabled.
Mutt executes the users shell. So, if the users' shell is rbash mutt will run rbash. The shell to be executed in mutt can be tweaked with $shell. So don't give your users permission to execute any other shells. HTH, Michael -- PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
