How to trap !sh at keyboard
Josh Miller
joshua at itsecureadmin.com
Fri May 23 22:02:08 UTC 2008
Billy Davis wrote:
> It seems that some of our users are inclined to key in '!sh' at the
> shell prompt, which promptly shuts down our Red Hat Enterprise 3 Server,
> interrupting everyone else's work. Is there a line that we can add to
> the inittab file, that will trap this string, in the same fashion that
> the 'ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now' line traps
> Ctrl-Alt-Delete inputs?
Haha, is this a joke to get people to try it out and shut down their
machines? I actually tried it on a test-host, not believing you and not
realizing that it would execute the last command that began with sh,
which did happen to be 'shutdown -r now'.
Thanks for the laugh on a Friday afternoon :)
Josh, RHCE
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