On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:13:26PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Under some circumstances it can also be useful to have > an "emergency user" which is not dependant on anything > outside the base system (i.e. doesn't use anything from > /usr/local, doesn't have its home on an NFS volume, > doesn't has its account information on NIS etc.). It > should be a member of the wheel group so it can do "su".
In the same idea, I never change root's shell (and often on NIS environnement I keep the "least uper bound" shell of all install and had a little trick to startup files to find my fav' shell at login and then exec it ... ) I think also that root should have /rescue/*sh as shell (static versions) just to be sure ... -- Burelle Marwan, Equipe Bases de Donnees - LRI http://www.cduce.org ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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