In my office, usually we work together with others. Sometimes we just need other to execute some command, not all. After a little search, I found lshell. It’s very configureable. With lot’s of options.

This program is also already in debian repository, I know it’s hard to be in debian’s repos. I think this program is already mature.

Install this on debian

$sudo apt-get install lshell

Install this on Ubuntu

$tar -zxvf lshell-0.9.6.tar.gz
$sudo python setup .py install
$chsh -s /usr/bin/lshell USERNAME

That’s it. You can use the restricted shell.

ps: another restricted shell I know are: rssh, ironbars