On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 09:51 PM IST, Alan Coopersmith 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/27/21 4:26 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > i am aware about ksh being in the list of shells under omnios, what i can't 
> > digest is the fact that omnios had to go and make bash the default login 
> > shell, even for root.
>
> As my note pointed out, everyone inherited this decision from OpenSolaris 
> over a
> decade ago.  What makes you think omnios did anything besides keep that?
>
> I didn't paste the part of the argument that pointed out these are just 
> defaults
> which can be very easily changed by users or sites with different preferences.
>
> > why try to fix something which isn't broken?
>
> So you're arguing that omnios shouldn't "fix" the default shell they get from
> illumos now and OpenSolaris before that.

mr. coopersmith, you've somehow got the logic of your second statement quite 
confused.

honestly, i didn't understand what you meant by "shouldn't fix the default 
shell" in the second comment when in the first comment above you've mentioned 
that omnios via illumos inherited "bash for root" from opensolaris over a 
decade ago.


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