[aklug] Re: terminal types and curses programming

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Shane R. Spencer wrote:

> Christopher Howard wrote:
>>
>> However, someone had suggested to me that the program would be a nifty way
>> for some companies to allow untrusted users to have access to some
>> programs inside a shell account, without actually having full access to
>> the shell. (The program can be called by the profile, so that it is the
>> first thing that opens when a users logs in via ssh.)
>>
>> I think this could work. The issue is (as I have verified through
>> testing), is that if a user simply sets his TERM variable to something
>> nonsensical before logging in, the program will die and the user will have
>> immediate access to the shell. (Which is not what the company wanted.)
>>
> Ah.. how are the users shells set up? Just /bin/bash in /etc/passwd?
> Something similar?
>
> Shane
>

On my Debian systems it's '/bin/sh', though '/bin/sh' is just a shortcut
to 'bash' in the same directory.

-- 
Christopher Howard
http://indicium.us
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