On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Jackson <f...@mindspring.com> wrote: >> On 09/24/2014 07:22 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: >>> That won't automatically invoke bash on Debian/Ubuntu....unless someone >>> intentionally changed default shells.... >> >> People seem not to know that Debian and derivatives use a variant Almquist >> shell rather than bash for system accounts. > > You're both wrong. > > $ cat /etc/issue > Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l > > $ ls -laF /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 17 2011 /bin/sh -> bash* > $ grep root /etc/passwd > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
You have done something wrong/different than what appears on a relatively clean install: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l $ cat /etc/debian_version 7.6 $ ls -laF /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 1 2012 /bin/sh -> dash* $ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh I'm curious now... did you install a server or desktop version of Debian? Was if from netinst or cds, etc.? -Jim P.
