padded cell
Where you put lusers so they can't hurt anything. A program that limits a luser
to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for
example, the "rsh" utility on USG Unix). Note that this is different from an
iron box because it is overt and not aimed at enforcing security so much as
protecting others (and the luser) from the consequences of the luser's boundless
naivet'e (see naive). Also "padded cell environment".
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-30)
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