Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:05:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Edward Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>, rgrimes@FreeBSD.org, src-committers <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r343440 - head/bin/sh Message-ID: <201901260105.x0Q15YwH091095@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <6DD219EC-C898-499E-BF58-AB653A7114DB@FreeBSD.org>
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> > On Jan 25, 2019, at 1:13 AM, Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> wrote: Chop with the big axe most of this as I need to clarify a miss statement. ... > > The change we're discussing doesn't affect upgrades at all - it's only > > for new installs. > > mergemaster, iirc, will merge in changes to etc files after an upgrade. > So this would effect anybody that goes through an upgrade and performs mergemaster. Correct, and to my knowledge there is no way to stop that effect. ... > > > And it doesn't affect root by default, you > > need to change their shell from csh(1) to sh(1). > > By your own commit messages admission, this is for the toor account, so it does affect a user (and as you were keen to point out, users with the default shell). Further it effects root any time root types "sh" or "/bin/sh" and intentially invokes sh interactive for some reason, something I do more often than I care to admit simply cause I know what I want to do is much easier in that shell. It does not require root change there login shell for these changes to effect the root account usage. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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