From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 26 11:12:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (roble.com [206.40.34.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C60114E25 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sendmail@roble.com) Received: from roble2.roble.com (roble2.roble.com [206.40.34.52]) by roble.com (Roble1b) with SMTP id LAA16225 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root access problem please help. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > For God's sakes: If you made the dumb move of making a dynamically linked > binary your root shell you're going to have to pay consequences. It would only be a dumb move if neither the shell nor the linked libraries were on the root filesystem. I've been using dynamically linked tcsh and bash as the root shell for over a decade with no problems. Splitting /usr onto a separate filesystem, however, can be a dumb move if you're not restricted to 1GB drives. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message