[SunHELP] root shell

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 13:41, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> Changing root's shell is a Bad Thing [tm].

> e.g
> http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/sunhelp/2001-April/009837.html
> 
> You should always leave /sbin/sh as root's default shell, it's statically
> linked and therefore doesn't rely on any external libraries to function
> correctly. Meaning you still have a fully functional shell in the event of,
> for instance, /usr not being mounted succesfully on boot.

It's NOT a bad thing to change root's shell.  It is only a bad thing if
you change it to a shell that isn't statically linked.  I tend to keep a
statically linked copy of some functional bourne-style shell around for
emergency recovery, as I really hate /sbin/sh.
	Greg