[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sun Apr 21 12:29:26 CDT 2002


[ On Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 00:22:26 (-0500), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Thoughts on bash for root
>
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > On Solaris, is it safe to change root to use bash?
> 
> Only if it's statically-linked.  You want a shell that you can use in
> single-user mode, in case anything/everything goes to hell.

It doesn't really matter that much on Solaris, does it?

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