Vineet Kumar wrote: > [...] > Well, there's a clue about why it's not working the way you expect: bash > enters restricted mode when invoked as 'rbash', but it's being invoked > as '-rbash' from login.
I hadn't noticed that the first time around. I'm digging through the bash manpage, and the default for PS1 is "\s-\v\$ " (\s is basename of $0). The restricted option is based on an 'r' in the first character of the shell name, so this is no doubt likely culprit. I did notice the following in the manpage: A login shell is one whose first character of argument zero is a -, or one started with the --login option. Yet the same info is in a version of the manpage dating to 1995. But it worked before! > So that's the "why", but unfortunately I don't know the proper way to > set it up. It looks like I can remedy the problem for doing a "set -r" in /etc/profile, but I'm a bit flabbergasted that this feature has gone from defaulting to a somewhat secure setting, to a blatantly insecure one. Surely I'm not the only one to have been burnt by this? I've re-read all the info I found previously on using bash in restricted mode, and setting the user's shell to /bin/rbash is normally adequate (with a restrictive $PATH, etc.) Thank you for pointing the difference out, as I'd missed that important clue. With "set -r", it's working as expected now. - Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]