[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> My impression is that /sbin/sh is one of the few binaries in /sbin
> that actually IS linked statically.

Okay, I got curious.  The only statically-linked binaries are: autopush,
fdisk, jsh, mount, sh, soconfig, su.static, sync, umount, and uname.


mount/umount make a lot of sense.  Throw ksh in there, and you might have
enough built-ins to get some recovery work done.  It looks the general
assumption is that you're screwed unless you can mount something with
working libs on it (like, the Solaris Software CD).

So, I guess if you don't have a CD-ROM drive in your system, you're
screwed.  I'd expected much better from Solaris.  I -know- this wasn't
always so broken.  When did it change?  2.7 or so?

--Jonathan