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Old 06-18-2013
Removing permissions from all users including owner
Hello all:

I will include a "requirement" for an issue I am attempting to solve for my boss. Basically, he would like to know if there is a way to prevent users and owner from editing 'write' script in Vi.

- While working in Unix Vi, users would be able to keep all the previous versions of the script being edited. If an attempt is made to edit a script from command line (using Vi), an error message should be shown, coaxing the user to edit the script from a Windows Sub-version environment. The user, however, should be able to read and execute script.

I am not a Unix user at all, so I do not know much terminology dealing with the subject. If anyone knows of any plug-ins or any ways to make this permission restriction possible, I'd greatly appreciate your comment! Thanks.
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Old 06-18-2013
On what operating system is "vi" being executed?
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Old 06-18-2013
Unix Smilie

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sorry, windows xp professional 2002 is what my computer runs. The developers' may be different, but I doubt it
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Old 06-18-2013
Unix is not so much an operating system. It is a standard upon which organizations and companies base their own systems.

Post the output of below command:
Code:
uname

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Old 06-18-2013
"Unix" is a very broad term. Can you run uname -a from the prompt that is used to launch "vi"?
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Old 06-18-2013
Unix-AIX
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Old 06-18-2013
It would really help if you posted the actual output of uname -a...
 
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