From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 14:25:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA89F16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:25:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from feanor@pc5-179.lri.fr) Received: from lri.lri.fr (lri.lri.fr [129.175.15.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFA243D5F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:25:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from feanor@pc5-179.lri.fr) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lri.lri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D4F249C8C for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from lri.lri.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lri.lri.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14814-09 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from pc5-179.lri.fr (pc5-179 [129.175.5.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lri.lri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726FB249C8A for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from pc5-179.lri.fr (localhost.lri.fr [127.0.0.1]) by pc5-179.lri.fr (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAAEOur6033868 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from feanor@pc5-179.lri.fr) Received: (from feanor@localhost) by pc5-179.lri.fr (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id jAAEOti2033867 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from feanor) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:55 +0100 From: Marwan Burelle To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20051110142455.GA33797@pc5-179.lri.fr> References: <200511101313.jAADDQsT006141@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511101313.jAADDQsT006141@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lri.fr Cc: Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:25:05 -0000 --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:13:26PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Under some circumstances it can also be useful to have > an "emergency user" which is not dependant on anything > outside the base system (i.e. doesn't use anything from > /usr/local, doesn't have its home on an NFS volume, > doesn't has its account information on NIS etc.). It > should be a member of the wheel group so it can do "su". In the same idea, I never change root's shell (and often on NIS environnement I keep the "least uper bound" shell of all install and had a little trick to startup files to find my fav' shell at login and then exec it ... ) I think also that root should have /rescue/*sh as shell (static versions) just to be sure ... --=20 Burelle Marwan, Equipe Bases de Donnees - LRI http://www.cduce.org (burelle@lri.fr | Marwan.Burelle@ens.fr) --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDc1g3I+2UvUKfgvgRAofXAJ48gWjTOs4mEuvnaIWuDYl3u+meOgCfbpx/ gGU/hka3JGk8AS8PYwhTawI= =7gHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--