[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > On Solaris, is it safe to change root to use bash?

> Only if it's statically-linked.  You want a shell that you can use in
> single-user mode, in case anything/everything goes to hell.

Except that trivial stuff like, oh..., FSCK is linked dynamically.
Hell, even crle, which mucks with shared libraries, is linked
dynamically, so that if you screw up, you can't recover.

The fixsolaris document has a good rant on the subject...

--Kurt