boot banner project

[Charles Swiger]

[ Sorry for the delay in responding, I decided to take the weekend off 
from email.  600 FreeBSD messages await me, no doubt filled with a 
mixture of useful tech stuff and the copyright-thread-that-won't-die. ]

On May 8, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>>> 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 :).

I've managed to plunk a round or two into my own foot, using a shell 
located in /usr/local, rather than staticly linked and present on /.  
:-)  It's no fun to boot off a CD because the system can't automaticly 
fsck the filesystem that root's shell wants to use, and wants manual 
help...

However, the toor account is a fine idea: every system I've got-- 
whether running FreeBSD or not-- uses /bin/sh for root's shell.  
However, I've also created toor accounts using my preferred shell [1] 
as a backup.  If FreeBSD were to ship with tcsh as toor's shell, and 
/bin/sh as root's shell, that would still provide a super-user login 
with tcsh for those who want such a thing.

However, logging in as a normal user and gaining privileges via sudo 
seems to work just as well, and avoids the need to login directly as a 
UID==0 account.

-- 
-Chuck

[1]: ZSH.