From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 21:10:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC7816A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:10:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078E343D2D for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:10:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pD9E68DB4.dip.t-dialin.net [217.230.141.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83252E018 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:08:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41CC85BC.8030305@mukappabeta.de> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:10:20 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <41C6AC75.6020608@uol.com.br> <20041220120620.GA68520@duplo.dahoam> <20041220133252.GB7774@lb.tenfour> <20041220145227.GA24495@ei.bzerk.org> <20041221000020.GS84787@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20041221000020.GS84787@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: bash - superuser X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:10:23 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > This is a particularly tenacious rumour. I've been using bash as my > root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and > I've never had any problems. I've also never seen any substantiated > problems reported anywhere. Besides, when your favourite shell is hosed, you most likely cannot log in anyways, since usually root login is disabled for sshd. And then it's about the only case when it's getting tough.. when it's a machine that's hosted somewhere in a rack at a hosing provider, probably one of the most common situations today in business environments. When one has physical access to the machine, it's a non-issue.