boot banner project

Roman Neuhauser neuhauser at sigpipe.cz
Tue May 10 03:44:51 PDT 2005


# cswiger at mac.com / 2005-05-10 01:09:57 -0400:
> On May 8, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >Sorry, I just scanned the thread before replying - there's probably no
> >footshooting potential in using /bin/sh for root.
> >
> >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 :).

> However, logging in as a normal user and gaining privileges via sudo 
> seems to work just as well, and avoids the need to login directly as a 
> UID==0 account.

    I don't remember any trouble from always using su -m (when I do su
    instead of sudo).

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