[Sunhelp] root login problem

Magnus Abrante magnus.abrante at nocke.Sweden.Sun.COM
Fri Aug 11 16:54:39 CDT 2000


> Not sure why that shouldn't work unless something is wrong with /bin/ksh.
> 
> Why not just change root shell back to /bin/sh?

Umm, => /sbin/sh <=.. There is a reason to why the roots login shell
is set to /sbin/sh and nothing other than /sbin/sh, why can't
people just leave it that way? Its amazing how many problems i've
seen caused by people changing roots shell, preferably to something
that doesn't exists, or in one way or another is faulty.

I dont know, perhaps its to much to write bash/tcsh/csh/ksh when
people login as root, but then there are other commands like "sudo"
or by that matter "alias" :)

Hint 2 is to add another user with the UID 0 GID 1 but login name
"soot" or whatever which has the desired shell.

Oh well, thats my humble, sorry if it sounds to negative.

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */
	





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