Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:43:55 +0100 From: Daniel Lannstrom <op@trekdanne.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root shell Message-ID: <20090301164355.GA29675@haruhi> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310903010811o47b77f04y7976819e101b881b@mail.gmail.com> References: <d2f26f270903010650h243df36bx2ea07d434567633e@mail.gmail.com> <20090301155532.GA29514@haruhi> <4ad871310903010811o47b77f04y7976819e101b881b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT Yes that's exactly what I meant. Is there any other reason except for that? As I see it that problem can easily be solved by copying bash to the root file system. Also many systems today have the root and /usr on the same file system.
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