From owner-freebsd-security Sun Apr 14 22: 2:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (mx0.roble.com [206.40.34.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAA237B405 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.netlecture.com (gw.netlecture.com [206.40.34.9]) by roble.com with ESMTP id g3F52R218407 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:02:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Subject: Affect of BSD mail/mailx bug in Solaris (was: Re: Corrected... Message-ID: <20020414215552.L18292-100000@roble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Charles M. Richmond" wrote: >and the default root shell would have had to have been changed >from 'sh' to 'csh'. Not to say that Sun shouldn't fix this. The default root shell only effects interactive sessions. Solaris cron scripts, rc scripts, and scripts which do not specify a shell have always have been run under /bin/sh. Pretty sure this is true for FreeBSD as well. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message