Martin Stricker writes.... > > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > No sane-person uses tcsh to write scripts in, it is obscure and > > arcane and riddled with problems..but is also an excellent > > interactive shell. > > I'm taking this as an insult! ;=D Actually, I've moved most scripts over > to Perl, but for the small ones I remain with tcsh. Bash is the > nightmare - doesn't work in a coherent way. > > > Then there is the zsh, which really is the bees-knees of all > > shells...but hardly known about. > > Yup, but I'm so used to tcsh... > > > If you want to restrict users in some way to what they can do, > > examine the use of the "restricted" shell options, or the use of > > chroot environments. Or write a shell script that locks them inside > > it somehow and disallows certain commands. > > Of course all these restrictons can be circumvented. I think a > "restricted shell" is the best you can get. All perfect examples/reason why most shell scripts are written in Bourne (/bin/sh) and very few people use that as their interactive shell. -- Jay Crews jpc@jaycrews.com -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
