Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:19:52 +0300 From: Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root shell [was: How to create another account with root privileges?] Message-ID: <a05111b04b9cb3b3662f2@[192.168.0.2]> In-Reply-To: <20021010132604.GA82681@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <a05111b03b9cb2922238d@[192.168.0.2]> <20021010132604.GA82681@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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> > 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". Thanks for the assurance! I was worried there would be some script that runs root's login shell for some weird reason. Bash apparently isn't a drop in replacement for sh, as I was lead to believe. -- Cheers, Petri Metis / Petri Riihikallio GSM: +358 400 505 939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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