Re: vi secure


At 03:36 PM 4/20/2008, Jille wrote:
>Ben Kaduk wrote:
>>On 4/20/08, William O. Yates <hackware@tru2life.net> 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."
>>Are you running vi as root?  I believe that will automatically set secure 
>>mode.
>>-Ben Kaduk
>
>On my FreeBSD 6.3 vi doesn't auto-enable secure mode when run as root.
>
>-- Jille

Same for mine on 7.0

         -Derek

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