PD ed required

[a.r. 8947277 baxter]

dkeisen at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:

>In article <1990Sep14.012153.12702 at ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan at ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>>I need to have a secure version of it ie no shell escapes.
>Something that has worked for us in similar cases is to use a shell script:
>SHELL=
>export SHELL
>exec ed $*
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I just followed up to a similar question in comp.unix.questions pointing
out that this doesnt work. Inside vi, you type '<ESC>:set shell=/bin/sh', 
then you can shell out to your hearts content.

You might want to get the source for one of the PD vi-clones, and modify
that; or there may be some other way to do this.

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