On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:02, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not have > > to > > make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled. > > But we make the decision to include a dynamically linked shell as root's > login shell, which goes against years of accumulated wisdom in the Unix > world. > > We try to avoid making decisions on behalf of our user, but shouldn't > the decisions that we *do* make be the right ones? This isn't simply a > matter of opinion. There is a very valid technical reason that root's > shell should be statically linked. Why don't we ship with that > configuration by default?
After reading this thread, I decided to install sash. Interestingly, the default installation doesn't overwrite root's default shell, but creates a _new_ root account, and even clones the password from /etc/shadow. root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash sashroot:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sash -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
