Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:09:03 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "William O. Yates" <hackware@tru2life.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi secure Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080420150707.025abec0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <1208717847.18770@ns3.tru2life.net> References: <1208717847.18770@ns3.tru2life.net>
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At 01:57 PM 4/20/2008, William O. Yates 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."
>
>When attempting to ":set nosecure" got:
>
>"set: the secure option may not be turned off."
>
>When attempting to "set nosecure" in my .exrc file, got:
>
>set nonumber
>.exrc, 44: set: the secure option may not be turned off
>.exrc, 44: Ex command failed: pending commands discarded
>
>Looking through all the man pages, vi references, tutorials, and the the
>oreilly vi "bible",
>can't find anything...
>
>Is "set secure" a compiled in setting?
>
> >From FreeBSD vi man page:
>
> -S Run with the secure edit option set, disallowing all
> access to
> external programs.
>and
> secure [off]
> Turns off all access to external programs.
>
>..william.o.yates...hackware.at.tru2life.net...tru2life.info...
So you are using ! for external commands and not the like :w!
I would look at any defaults on the system that may be causing vi to run in
secure mode, also check the mounted filesystem you are on is set to noexec.
-Derek
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