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[amir manouchehri]

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From: Scott D. Yelich <scott at scottyelich.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Shell?


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> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Sunder wrote:
> > root:x:0:1:Super-User:/:/sbin/sh
> >                         ^^^^^^^^
> > However, you're right.  Without /usr, you don't have fsck, mount, or
format,
> > and you can't just copy them over to /sbin because they're dynamically
linked,
> > which leaves you a single option: boot from CDROM to fix stuff:
>
> remote [6]> uname -a
> SunOS remote.spy.org 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4m sparc Tadpole_S3GS
> remote [7]> ls /sbin
> autopush     ifconfig     mount        rc5          su.opie.old  umount
> bpgetfile    init         mountall     rc6          su.static    umountall
> dhcpagent    ipf          rc0          rcS          sulogin      uname
> dhcpinfo     ipfstat      rc1          sh           swapadd
> fdisk        ipnat        rc2          soconfig     sync
> hostconfig   jsh          rc3          su           uadmin
>
> > So you know what, fuck it, and just set it to /usr/local/bin/bash and
don't
> > worry, because like Lion said, you won't be doing very much anyway. :)
>
> If you're local to the machine and have a cdrom, who cares...
> boot cdrom -s is your friend.
>
> If you have a shell on it and net access, then you can do a root 'sploit.
>
> Personally, the only reason I see to change root's shell is for
interactive
> logins.. and I've been typing "exec tcsh" (or thereabouts) for so long,
> I don't see what the issue is with changing the base default shell.
>
> Scott
>
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