2008/11/30 Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > farhan ahmed wrote: >> Question is how can you make shell statically linked? I thought when you >> install package it should be linked rather than manual compiling and >> installing > > I think that is best left as an exercise for the asker. > > Here's what it boils down to: > There is nothing wrong with a properly implemented 'bash' or any > other shell for root. Hint: when the system comes up single user > mode, it will ASK you what shell to use. The statically compiled > part isn't even critical in OpenBSD, unless you are intent on > running bash in single-user mode before all partitions are mounted. > > The problem is when you break things, you break 'em BIG. Original > thread is a case in point. You win awards for courage, not wisdom, > for still being intent on using bash as the root shell while you are > still walking with a limp from your last experience. > > There's a lot of stuff that can go wrong when changing a user's > default shell over the lifecycles of the system (think upgrades!), > virtually all operator error, all avoidable, but errors that can > happen tend to happen. When you break JoeAverage's account, no big > deal, as long as you can get back as root and fix it. When you > break root, you have a problem. Yes, the goal is to do everything > right, but another goal is to make it more difficult to do things > wrong. > > If you don't know how to do it right, test it right, and recover it > right, don't change the root shell. I realize how it is such finger > breaking work to type the five keystrokes "b a s h [enter]" at a > command prompt after logging in...so horrible, I know, but until you > know what you are doing, just manually invoke bash. > > You will know you know what you are doing when you realize you don't > need or want to use bash on OpenBSD. The only good reason I've > found to use bash on OpenBSD is to make it feel like some other OS, > and that's really not a good thing when you are administering the > system (i.e., logging in as root!). > > ksh rocks on OpenBSD. :) > > Nick. > >
Why not set up a user (ex: bigguy) and then force his uid and gid to be 0 and 0 with vipw? Give that user a nice coloured bash prompt and set up directories in his home. This way you get a customized superuser while keeping the real root environment pristine. /juan
