From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 23:32: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com [24.5.122.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CDA14C1E for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Received: from localhost (tbackman@localhost) by c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA03077; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:36:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am just curious as to why it would be a bad idea to change root's shell to bash... (there are not too many exploits out there for bash) Thanks. On Tue, 11 May 1999, James A. Mutter wrote: > Be careful _not_ to change roots shell to bash, this is regarded as a > Bad Idea. > ========================================================================= Todd Backman "there are two major products that came out of berkley: Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be "The mountain is out!" a coincidence." j.s.anderson ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message