Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:57:32 -0600 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net>, 'Cliff Sarginson' <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root and the C Shell Message-ID: <3A369F4C.C3FACD17@sc.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012121242430.63877-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com>
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I really wish you would elaborate on these situations you allude to. I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm trying to learn something here :) Doug Barton wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > > > While this is obviously a good policy if you are administering many > > different platforms, it really doesn't matter that much on FreeBSD, > > does it? On FreeBSD, at entry to single-user mode, you are prompted > > for the shell path, and it always defaults to /bin/sh, right? Where > > is the great danger here? > > In not realizing that there are times and places where single user > mode is not available. I will restate my point one final time, because > frankly I have no idea what posessed me to enter into this discussion > again, since I know better. > > While YOU may never face a situation where you can't easily > recover from a borked shell, the BEST practice is to leave your > shells, for all of your accounts set to either /bin/sh or /bin/csh (i.e., > one of the shells that is built with the system) and use either .profile > or .login to exec your preferred shell if it is available. Less paranoid > solutions may very well work for you, however the above solution is the > safest, both on FreeBSD and on other platforms. > > Doug > -- > So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? > > Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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