Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:11:56 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Daniel Lannstrom <op@trekdanne.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root shell Message-ID: <4ad871310903010811o47b77f04y7976819e101b881b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090301155532.GA29514@haruhi> References: <d2f26f270903010650h243df36bx2ea07d434567633e@mail.gmail.com> <20090301155532.GA29514@haruhi>
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Lannstrom <op@trekdanne.se> wrote: > Why is this not a good idea? The only reason I can think of it that you > want your root shell on the root hard drive. As many system use a > separate partition for /usr and that bash installs to /usr/local/bin per > default I can see how that can cause troubles. But are there any other > reasons? Unstability in bash? Unexpected behaivor causing more harm in a > root shell? > This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT -- Glen Barber
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