Dangers of using a non-base shell

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I've been using the following for some time:
> >
> >     keramida> su -
> >     Password: ********
> >     root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l
>
> I know it doesn't work on slolaris^W some Unix flavors, but I've
> been quite happy with "su -m".

Heh, putting the Solaris bashing (sic) aside, I can see how the -m
option can be useful some times.  After all, it was implemented because
*someone* thought it would be neat to have around :-)