Re: [Help-nano] Does nan allow for shell escape?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello Mark,

> We have users that are wanting to edit files owned by root and we have 
> restrictions that restrict that activity. My question is, does nan allow for 
> shell escape in order to invoke other commands or scripts?

In it's default mode, nano will allow the executing of commands (and
reading their output into the current buffer) with ^R ^X.

> I’m not finding any doc stating that it will/can or restricts those
> activities.

Doing 'man nano' and searching for "restrict" should have given you the
answer.  But to expand on that:

If you make it so that those users, when they sudo or whatever, can
only execute 'nano --restricted' (or 'rnano') and not plain nano,
then you should have a safe way to let those users edit files owned
by root without them being able to do anything other than that.

Benno