Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:15:59 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Jille <jille@quis.cx>, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, "William O. Yates" <hackware@tru2life.net> Subject: Re: vi secure Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080420161535.025a97f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <480BA940.6060006@quis.cx> References: <1208717847.18770@ns3.tru2life.net> <47d0403c0804201332y746d79e9x741a5605ddde1e@mail.gmail.com> <480BA940.6060006@quis.cx>
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At 03:36 PM 4/20/2008, Jille wrote:
>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
>
>On my FreeBSD 6.3 vi doesn't auto-enable secure mode when run as root.
>
>-- Jille
Same for mine on 7.0
-Derek
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