From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 6:26:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAD437B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A37043E42 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 22317 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 13:26:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 13:26:08 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 081BA2FDAB2; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:26:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:26:04 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Petri Riihikallio Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root shell [was: How to create another account with root privileges?] Message-ID: <20021010132604.GA82681@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Petri Riihikallio , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi / 2002-10-10 16:06:26 +0300: > > Also, never change the shell for root. It needs to be as it is for > > some things to work right. > > I have been using bash for root shell some time now without noticing > any problems. My bash is statically linked and I have moved it to > /bin. > > What kind of problems should I expect? in this case probably none. the warning (sh|c)ould be generalized to "never change root's shell to one that is not completely contained in the root fs". -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 3:24PM up 22 days, 22:39, 18 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.12, 0.08 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message