[LON-CAPA-dev] text editor without shell

Scott Harrison lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:17:16 -0500


hmmm.. pico wouldn't overwrite even when sudo invoked...
so I guess the solution is probably to sudo the /bin/cp
command... okeedokee..

Martin Siegert wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Scott Harrison wrote:
> > yes.. I think that is indeed the solution..
> > (I was also thinking of an
> > editor called joe; 'joe's own editor')..
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > Matthew Brian Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > pico?
> > >
> > > <shudders>
> > >
> Scott Harrison wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear All:
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody know of a good linux text editor that
> > > > does not provide the user with a shell?  Even vi
> > > > does.
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking of setting up a sudo user for
> > > > the lon-capa configuration files and/or
> > > > critical administrative tasks.
> > > >
> > > > No worries.. :|
> > > > JUST fishing for ideas... not embarking on
> > > > an expedition...
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I must agree with Matthew's <shudders> remark.
> pico is written by the authors' of pine.
> pine has probably one of the worst security records of all packages that
> get installed on a Linux box.
> Thus, do you really want to use pico for security related work? <shudder>
> 
> Anyway, since pico is contained in the pine rpm the "proper" way of
> installing it is:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh pine-4.44-1.62.0.i386.rpm
> # cp /usr/bin/pico /usr/local/bin
> # cp /usr/man/man1/pico.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1
> # rpm -e pine
> 
> ... you don't want to have pine lying around ... somebody might use it :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
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