boot banner project

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Sunday, 8. May 2005 09:34, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:25:20AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote..
>
> > On Thursday, 5. May 2005 04:16, Charles Swiger wrote:
> > > Data point: I've been running /bin/sh as root's shell on a bunch of
> > > machines with zero issues since 4.0.
> >
> > You got lucky then, because there's some actual footshooting potential in
> > doing that. Use toor.
>
> Interesting, I have been running /bin/sh since 1.0R (yes..) for root
> and it never bit me.  Where is that footshooting potential?

Sorry, I just scanned the thread before replying - there's probably no 
footshooting potential in using /bin/sh for root. 

I was thinking about using (/usr/local/bin/)bash for root, something a lot of 
people try to do (until they notice a toe missing :).

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