Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:24:55 +0100 From: Marwan Burelle <Marwan.Burelle@lri.fr> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? Message-ID: <20051110142455.GA33797@pc5-179.lri.fr> In-Reply-To: <200511101313.jAADDQsT006141@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <E1EaBau-000JFM-De@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <200511101313.jAADDQsT006141@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--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--
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