[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sun Apr 21 13:11:44 CDT 2002


> > 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?

Is Solaris smart enough to -always- use /sbin/sh for single-user mode?  I
can never remember, and, thus, never change root's shell to anything that
isn't in /sbin.

--Jonathan



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