From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 10:25:56 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 A7CB814D87 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:25:52 -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 KAA04469; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:30:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: Donald Wilde Cc: "James A. Mutter" , phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? In-Reply-To: <37381DF2.8B19E36@thuntek.net> 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 Thanks for the info... On Tue, 11 May 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: > Todd Backman wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > The only problem with this is that if the machine can't mount your disks > and you need to work in single-user mode, bash won't run. csh and sh are > in the root partition /, so they're available. If the machine can't load > bash for you, it will fall back to sh, so I've never had a problem doing > the simple things I need to do in SU mode. I find that the benefits of > having shell consistency far outweigh the downside. I've got enough to > learn in this lifetime without having to deal with csh and vi too! > -- > Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" > Wilde Media > 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 > Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net > ========================================================================= 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