Safe use of vi from sudo???
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Mon Apr 10 19:55:25 EDT 2000
In message <38F25543.BF52B83 at metro1.com>
so spake Steve Bruno (steve.bruno):
> Is there any way for sudo and vi to safely coexist? An alternate
> version of vi that does not allow escaping to a shell?
Well, nvi (new vi) has a 'secure' option that disables things like
shell escapes. http://www.bostic.com/vi
I was fairly certain vim had a similar feature but I couldn't
find mention of it.
- todd
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