Joseph Galbraith wrote:
We just had a user request us to start a shell session for them in an arbitrary directory.
[...]
Are there security implications? Is it a bad idea?
Well, for one thing it would let users with restricted shells change directories.
What value does it give beyond "(cd /some/path && some command)" ?
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