restricting users to cat a file

[ashwani_1]

Is there a way that i cat restrict a user to cat , more or vi a file by setting up in its .profile or by a shell script whn a user logs in .

I do not wish to change the permission of the file coz i have to give read permission in order to execute some binaries which takes input from this file ( text password file )

[Suraj Singh_1]

Go through the man pages of "setacl" command.

I think that is what u r looking for..

rgds

[Robert Salter]

You might want to look into using 'rsh', restricted shell for the user. You can control which commands they can use. Do the users need command line access?

l8tr

[HGN]

Hi

Like what Rob mentioned here rsh might be a good idea to consider and you can use -l option there. There are a lot of web pages which has more details about rsh.

Rgds

HGN