Root users shell == no existant shell /bin/bash

[Matt Piechota]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Roger Marquis wrote:

> Where do people come up with these folk "rules"?  I spend all day 
> working in various root shells as part of my job.  Couldn't do it 
> otherwise.

It depends on what type of work you're doing, I suppose.  The idea is you 
should only use root for things that are absolutely necessary.  In theory, 
you should read man pages, investigate everything, and pull up a second 
shell as root just it issue commands with it.  The reasoning is if there's 
a bug in a program (like man, or lynx, netscape) you could hose the whole 
system up if you're root (or get it infected).  On the less paranoid side, 
a mistype as root could have rather bad consequences.


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Matt Piechota