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

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 9. May 2005 21:28, /dev/null wrote:

> He *boldly* asks without so much as the smallest amount of research -
> 1.)
> Would it be considered alot of trouble to make (t)csh POSIX compliant?

Prolly.

> 2.)
> Would it be considered difficult or poor practice to make root' shell an
> option during install?

Well, toor exists. Activate it and give it any shell you want, case closed. As 
has been said before, a POSIX-sh compatible shell for root is a red herring - 
slap #!/bin/sh in front of your scripts and be done with it.

The omnipresence of bash in Linux at least hasn't done a great service to 
script portability in my experience (you wouldn't think porting KDE isn't a 
likely opportunity to be confronted with bad scripting, but I had to learn 
otherwise the hard way. Bash makes it way to easy to write scripts that will 
only work when /bin/sh is really /bin/bash).

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