Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:22:16 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net>, "'Cliff Sarginson'" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root and the C Shell Message-ID: <20001212122216.A25077@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3A365BA7.DD603C89@FreeBSD.org>; from DougB@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:08:55AM -0800 References: <886CA0C095C5D411B95400508B6F741286606E@ukcamexch4.cam.uk.internal> <3A365BA7.DD603C89@FreeBSD.org>
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While this is obviously a good policy if you are administering many different platforms, it really doesn't matter that much on FreeBSD, does it? On FreeBSD, at entry to single-user mode, you are prompted for the shell path, and it always defaults to /bin/sh, right? Where is the great danger here? On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:08:55AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > You left out of your list the wisdom and experience of people who have > spent years administering unix machines in a variety of environments and > situations. The fact that you, in your limited experience have never had > any problems waving a loaded gun at your foot doesn't mean that it's > safe to do it. I don't mean to sound like a hardass here, but I'm sick > and tired of this, "_I_ do it, so it MUST be ok." line of (alleged) > reasoning. > > You are free to do whatever you want to do on your boxes, and I'm not > going to argue that point with you. If all you're running is a desktop > workstation that you can reach over and restart at the touch of a > switch, you probably never will run into a problem with a shell for root > on some other partition. However, it's clear that the BEST course of > action that covers more situations more appropriately is to make your > root shell one of the staticly linked shells that is built with the > system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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