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Subject: Re: bash default shell for root
To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:34:13 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <323B7745.167EB0E7@fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Sep 14, 96 09:25:57 pm
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Sean Kelly writes:
>
> Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Anthony Hill wrote:
>>> Are there any strong reasons why I should not set root's default shell to
>>> bash,
>> Yes.  root's shell needs to be a statically linked shell in /bin for
>> disaster recovery.
>
> Indeed.

Maybe this is solving the wrong problem.  I use bash as the root
shell, and I've done it by simply linking it statically.  Yes, it
works.

Greg