On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:08 AM, Joel Berger wrote: > > > Although you would probably need to do some sandboxing or else > > somereworking, you might check out > > showmetheshell,https://github.com/vti/showmetheshell > > Its a lightweight, perl-driven, browser based terminal! > > > > If you change the line > > > > PocketIO->new(instance => Handler->new(cmd => '/bin/bash')); > > > > to > > > > PocketIO->new(instance => Handler->new(cmd => 'pdl')); > > > > The browser terminal starts up with a new pdl prompt and everything. > > One really just needs to look into the sandboxing at that point. > > > > Wow, this is a whole bucket of fun. > > I really want to make this available to the inquiring, inquisitive > potential PDLer, but am not sure what to do to sandbox it. I poked around > the docs but didn't see anything mentioned. Any suggestions? I would be > happy to host this on my machine, at least until things get out of hand. > I haven't looked at showmetheshell, but I expect that Joel meant Safe.pm: http://perldoc.perl.org/Safe.html If you wrap the interpreter in Safe.pm, you could prevent users from trashing the Perl interpreter that's running the shell. (Again, that may not even be a problem. I'm not sure. Any comments, Joel?) David -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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