no. the reason this is disabled is that bash can be used as a system shell as well, and we do not want to have net redirections in the system shell. see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/11/msg00794.html for further discussion.
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthias Klose Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- disabled by default net redirections https://launchpad.net/bugs/70231 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs