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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to disable running commands from vi Post 302079996 by jim mcnamara on Friday 14th of July 2006 12:05:08 PM
Old 07-14-2006
Some versions of vi support a -S option for safe mode. nvi does this for example.

Is this because you have users running under SUDO? Most vi implementation do not have safe mode (which is not completely safe because users can get around an alias
like alias vi="vi -s"). In this case consider a chroot jail, which is probably the best solution.

example:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/01/23/chroot.html
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

chroot

CHROOT(1)							   User Commands							 CHROOT(1)

NAME

       chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory

SYNOPSIS

       chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]
       chroot OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       If no command is given, run ``${SHELL} -i'' (default: /bin/sh).

AUTHOR

       Written by Roland McGrath.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report chroot bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       chroot(2)

       The  full documentation for chroot is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and chroot programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'chroot invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.1						     July 2010								 CHROOT(1)
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