Root shell

Daniel Lannstrom op at trekdanne.se
Sun Mar 1 08:42:14 PST 2009


On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT

Yes that's exactly what I meant. Is there any other reason except for
that? As I see it that problem can easily be solved by copying bash to
the root file system. Also many systems today have the root and /usr 
on the same file system. 


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