[ILUG] Re: http logs again

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi Declan,

	your predicament reminds me I must say of a horror inflicted on
plebian UCD netsoc members such as myself.  It's called rBash, the 'r'
standing for "restricted".  That is an understatement.

	On entering oen is graced with the following message:

=========================================================================
Dear Member,

This is rBash, a restricted UNIX shell. If you are at all intimidated by
command line interfaces, type "exit" now!

Still here?

This shell has access to a few useful programs such as ls, df, du, chmod,
and a few compression utilities. Below is a full list of the commands
you can access:

cat       chmod     cp        cut       date      df        diskused  echo
editor    file      finger    gunzip    gzip      head      helpme    kill
ln        ls        mesg      mkdir     mv        ps        pwd
reset
rm        rmdir     split     stty      tail      tput      uudecode
uuencode
w         wc

Hope you enjoy it!

To leave rBash at any stage type 'exit'.
==========================================================================


the joys of it include:

gavinmcc at orca:~> echo $PATH 
/usr/slocal/shell

gavinmcc at orca:~> ls /usr/slocal/shell
ls: /usr/slocal/shell: Permission denied

gavinmcc at orca:~> /usr/bin/perl
rbash: /usr/bin/perl: restricted: cannot specify `/' in command names

gavinmcc at orca:~> SHELL=$SHELL:/usr/bin/
rbash: SHELL: readonly variable


basically, the idea of it is that you can do nothing at all.  Now before I 
get a defensive backlash from cadelor etc, I'm not trying to criticize it,
but be aware that if you're up against this kind of thing you're banging
you're head against a brick wall.  I'd suggest asking to borrow an account
from someone on a decent lease line so you can quickly transfer files over
and do what you need to.

Gavin