Dangers of using a non-base shell
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Fri Nov 9 08:34:15 PST 2007
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>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 :-)
>
>
Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with
no real shell (true, nologin etc).
--Alex
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