Re: [techtalk] Operator shell, sudo and others

2000-10-10 Thread Vinnie
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Olivier Tharan wrote: > Vim has a '-Z' option enabling 'restricted mode': > > -ZRestricted mode. All commands that make use of an > external shell are disabled. This includes suspending > with CTRL-Z, ":sh", filtering, etc. > > This option may also be avai

Re: [techtalk] Operator shell, sudo and others

2000-10-09 Thread Olivier Tharan
Le 09 octobre 2000, Vinnie écrivait : > but requires finding a version of vi (or some other editor) that doesn't > allow reading in of other files or shell escapes (rumour has it that > berkeley vi has a secure option that does this...I'm going to play with Vim has a '-Z' option enabling 'restric

Re: [techtalk] Operator shell, sudo and others

2000-10-09 Thread Vinnie
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > using group read and write is not an option. > > Why not? The obvious thing is to chgrp file foo to group foo_group > and anyone who's allowed to modify foo is a member of foo_group. the first reason is because of the software

Re: [techtalk] Operator shell, sudo and others

2000-10-09 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > using group read and write is not an option. Why not? The obvious thing is to chgrp file foo to group foo_group and anyone who's allowed to modify foo is a member of foo_group. Jeff ___ tec

[techtalk] Operator shell, sudo and others

2000-10-09 Thread Vinnie
So I'm working on finding a good way of delegating root privs to non-root users -- sudo is something of the defacto standard way, but I'm finding it's not great for what I need to do what I really need to do is give specific users read and/or write access to root owned 600 files -- and using gro