bash - superuser

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +0000, Dick Davies typed:
>> * Gerhard Meier <gemei2 at web.de> [1207 12:07]:
>>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
>>>> I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
>>>>
>>>> I have installed bash from ports.
>>>>
>>>> How is possible to use bash in root account ?
>>>
>>> Do not change the shell of the root account. If you have /usr or
>>> /usr/local on a separate partition, and you cannot mount for some
>>> reason, you wont be able to fix that, without booting from
>>> another device.
>>
>> No, but you'll still be able to use /bin/sh when going single user, so
>> what's the big deal?
>
> Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause
> problems even when not in single user mode. There are enough
> examples in the archives.

This is a particularly tenacious rumour.  I've been using bash as my
root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and
I've never had any problems.  I've also never seen any substantiated
problems reported anywhere.

Greg
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