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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:50 +0200
From:      Jille <jille@quis.cx>
To:        "William O. Yates" <hackware@tru2life.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vi secure
Message-ID:  <480BD392.1050306@quis.cx>
In-Reply-To: <1208732123.19532@ns3.tru2life.net>
References:  <1208732123.19532@ns3.tru2life.net>

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Does one of the following files enables secure mode?
/etc/vi.exrc
$HOME/.nexrc
$HOME/.exrc
.nexrc
.exrc

Those are the vi-startup files (as stated by the manpage)

-- Jille

William O. Yates schreef:
> On 20/Apr/2008 13:32 Ben Kaduk wrote ..
>   
>> On 4/20/08, William O. Yates <hackware@tru2life.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Recently started using vi macros.
>>>
>>>  When attempting to use one which accessed the external shell, got the following
>>>       
>> message:
>>     
>>>  "The ! command is not supported when the secure edit option is set."
>>>
>>>       
>> Are you running vi as root?  I believe that will automatically set secure mode.
>>
>> -Ben Kaduk
>>     
>
> Yes, running as root (toor actually)...
>
> ns1:/usr/local/interchange/catalogs/store> uname -a
> FreeBSD ns1.tru2life.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007     root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> ns1:/usr/local/interchange/catalogs/store>
>
> ..william.o.yates...hackware.at.tru2life.net...tru2life.info...
>
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