On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Mark Dickey wrote: >First question is with an On-line editor. Right now when you edit a room >etc it is pretty annoying. What is the possibility of somehow calling vi >and then when you can vi, it knows you are done with the editing? > >Has anyone done anything like this and would it even be possible? > >I want to let one or two people, besides myself, edit the code, but to do >this they need the telnet access. > >I don't want them to have a full account on there, but a restricted shell >that allows very few commands and restricts them to the /usr/local/mud >directory. MUD++ implemented a mini telnet daemon which would spawn a secure pico shell where the person could edit things. -- George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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