[SunHELP] root shell

[Will Mc Donald]

Changing root's shell is a Bad Thing [tm].

See...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K43D31C1

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.

Will.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig T. Abram" <Craig.Abram at footstar.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] root shell


> Someone told me thye changed roots shell from sh to bash by changeing it
> in /etc/passwd, does anyone know of any effects this could have ?
>
> Thanks