bash - superuser

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 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.

There was actually an actual problem with having bash as root shell
reported on this very list about a week ago. See
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?41C0CC10.4020109
and
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041216001329.GA37679
for the conclusion of the thread.




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Erik Trulsson
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