Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:35:27 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell Message-ID: <20071030183527.0b18f561@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <472647A0.3030009@brookes.ac.uk> References: <472647A0.3030009@brookes.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:50:40 +0000 Stephen Allen <p0036343@brookes.ac.uk> wrote: > It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports > collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) > fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. It's only really root that matters. There is a alternate account called toor which you can use with bash if you like, it has a uid of zero like root, and the same home directory, so it's just the same. It's also possible to build a statically linked version of bash from ports if you want.
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