From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 18:59:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0BC16A41B for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:59:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org (arbitor.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB75913C468 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:59:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA82917C9E; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.digitalfreaks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30478-13; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.2.50] (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9BB317C9C; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:59:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" To: Jerahmy Pocott In-Reply-To: <2F42244C-6F3F-48B3-AC05-FF068A791324@optusnet.com.au> References: <2F42244C-6F3F-48B3-AC05-FF068A791324@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:59:21 -0400 Message-Id: <1191610761.28483.184.camel@soundwave.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: BASH as root shell (static linking) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:59:24 -0000 On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 04:54 +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically > linked > version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked > out because > elf.ld.so could not be found.. JP: Did: $ ldd /bin/bash Return anything? It should not. ~BAS