Restricted Shells

System administrators can use restricted versions of the Korn shell (rksh) and Bourne shell (rsh) to limit the operations allowed for a particular user account.

Restricted shells do not allow the following operations:

• Changing directories

• Setting the $PATH variable

• Specifying path or command names beginning with "/"

• Redirecting output

See the ksh and sh man pages for a description of these shells.

Note that the restricted shell and the remote shell have the same command name (rsh) with different path names:

• /usr/lib/rsh is the restricted shell

• /usr/bin/rsh is the remote shell