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padded cell
n. 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 (1) 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 naivete (see naive ). Also padded cell environment.