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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I've been using the following for some time:
>>>
>>>    keramida> su -
>>>    Password: ********
>>>    root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l
>>>      
>>>
>>I know it doesn't work on slolaris^W some Unix flavors, but I've
>>been quite happy with "su -m".
>>    
>>
>
>Heh, putting the Solaris bashing (sic) aside, I can see how the -m
>option can be useful some times.  After all, it was implemented because
>*someone* thought it would be neat to have around :-)
>  
>
Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with 
no real shell (true, nologin etc).

--Alex