Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:10:20 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bash - superuser Message-ID: <41CC85BC.8030305@mukappabeta.de> In-Reply-To: <20041221000020.GS84787@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <41C6AC75.6020608@uol.com.br> <20041220120620.GA68520@duplo.dahoam> <20041220133252.GB7774@lb.tenfour> <20041220145227.GA24495@ei.bzerk.org> <20041221000020.GS84787@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > This is a particularly tenacious rumour. I've been using bash as my > root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and > I've never had any problems. I've also never seen any substantiated > problems reported anywhere. Besides, when your favourite shell is hosed, you most likely cannot log in anyways, since usually root login is disabled for sshd. And then it's about the only case when it's getting tough.. when it's a machine that's hosted somewhere in a rack at a hosing provider, probably one of the most common situations today in business environments. When one has physical access to the machine, it's a non-issue.
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