From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 26 11:35:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D00914BEB for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A4CB1C29; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:37:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970E43817; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:37:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:37:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Roger Marquis Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root access problem please help. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Roger Marquis wrote: > > For God's sakes: If you made the dumb move of making a dynamically linked > > binary your root shell you're going to have to pay consequences. > > It would only be a dumb move if neither the shell nor the linked > libraries were on the root filesystem. I've been using dynamically > linked tcsh and bash as the root shell for over a decade with no > problems. Splitting /usr onto a separate filesystem, however, can be a > dumb move if you're not restricted to 1GB drives. Obviously. I'm refering to the plethora of users who have the typical /, /usr, /var, swap install, and the plethora of users who # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 && make install clean # chsh [...] # And then file a PR. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message