Dangers of using a non-base shell

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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>>>I've been using the following for some time:
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>>>    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".
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>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 :-)
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Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with 
no real shell (true, nologin etc).

--Alex