Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:26:04 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root shell [was: How to create another account with root privileges?] Message-ID: <20021010132604.GA82681@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <a05111b03b9cb2922238d@[192.168.0.2]> References: <a05111b03b9cb2922238d@[192.168.0.2]>
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# Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi / 2002-10-10 16:06:26 +0300:
> > Also, never change the shell for root. It needs to be as it is for
> > some things to work right.
>
> I have been using bash for root shell some time now without noticing
> any problems. My bash is statically linked and I have moved it to
> /bin.
>
> What kind of problems should I expect?
in this case probably none. the warning (sh|c)ould be generalized to
"never change root's shell to one that is not completely contained
in the root fs".
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