[Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Ghent [mailto:daleg at elemental.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 10:28 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, ds wrote:
> 
> | One of our Admin's just built his new Ultra 5.  After he 
> was done, he
> | wanted to change the Root shell to Korn.  In doing so, he 
> changed the
> | correct shell name in the passwd file, yet he forgot to 
> change to path
> | to the shell.
> 
> One thing you should avoid doing is changing the default root 
> shell. It is
> /sbin/sh for a specific reason (note: it's not /bin/sh 
> either.) /sbin/sh

Whoops.  One of those darn sh executables.  There always seem to be about 4
of them floating around on any given machine.

> is a statically-linked binary, in other words, it doesnt depend on the
> dynamic loadable libraries in /usr/lib to be around in order for it to
> execute. This means that if a library that is needed by 
> normal dynamically
> linked programs is corrupted or otherwise not useable, one 
> can still log
> in as root and attempt to remedy the situation

Are there any other reasons behind this, or should any statically linked
shell work ok there?
	Greg