ault@rachel.its.rpi.edu (Jim Ault) (03/07/91)
Is there any way to turn off the "shell escape" mechanism in SMIT? We are planning to try to give a user the ability to do installs via SMIT, but we don't want to allow (root) shell escapes. Are there any command options to SMIT that will do this? Please reply directly to me via email. Thanks.
brian@b80lab.austin.ibm.com (Brian Nelson) (03/08/91)
In article <B98-!1$@rpi.edu> ault@rachel.its.rpi.edu (Jim Ault) writes: > >Is there any way to turn off the "shell escape" mechanism in SMIT? SMIT will look at the environment variable 'SHELL' to determine the users preferred shell. Usually it is something like '/bin/csh'. SMIT will start that program as the new shell (/bin/ksh is assumed if SHELL is not set). You can set SHELL to any executable you desire, and when the user tries to open a shell in SMIT, that executable will be run instead of the shell. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Brian Nelson IBM Advanced Workstation Division Austin, Texas IBM Internet: brian@b80lab.austin.ibm.com IBM VNET: BNELSON at AUSVM6 FootNet: 4D-24/803 PhoneNet: 823-4164 (Tie 793-4164)