root's shell (Was: Re: boot banner project)

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Sunday, 8. May 2005 12:47, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Sunday, 8. May 2005 10:50, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 May 2005, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 8. May 2005 10:17, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> > >>>> 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 don't like the thought of root's login shell being anywhere but on
> > >> the root partition. You're absolutely correct though (Single user mode
> > >> prompts for the shell to use).
> > >
> > > A dynamically linked bash(3) requires libintl ...
> >
> > Right, and if root's shell is set to /usr/local/bin/bash, you can opt to
> > use /bin/sh at the single user mode prompt.
>
> There's other possible issues - see
> 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=884568+0+archive/2004/freebsd-current/20041010.freebsd-current 
for an example.

Oh, and btw: There is no freebsd-misc mailinglist. Perhaps you were thinking 
of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc ...

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