Re: Security problem: rbash isn't working on initial invocation

2002-09-26 Thread Bob George
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 de

Re: Security problem: rbash isn't working on initial invocation

2002-09-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 11:40]: > I'm using bash on Debian 'testing'. I've created a symlink /bin/rbash > that points to /bin/bash, and prior to upgrading to 3, it worked as > expected. Users could not do "cd .." and other restricted functions as > described in the manpage. I o

Security problem: rbash isn't working on initial invocation

2002-09-26 Thread Bob George
I'm using bash on Debian 'testing'. I've created a symlink /bin/rbash that points to /bin/bash, and prior to upgrading to 3, it worked as expected. Users could not do "cd .." and other restricted functions as described in the manpage. I only recently noticed that this is NOT currently working.