On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically
linked.
Guess again:
kuno ~$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 May 25 2000 /bin/sh - bash
kuno ~$
It's a good measure to have a
Why on Earth would u want to???
unless u have a really, really good reason to, don't bother and just have the
one superuser. the more superusers u have the more of a security risk you
create since it makes available more priveleged accounts for malicious users
to hack and do whatever they please
Robert Marlow (2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why on Earth would u want to???
Well, I have two superuser accounts on my system: root with default
shell bash, and toor with default shell sh. This is very common
usage on BSD systems -- if bash becomes corrupted or inaccessible, you
can login with
Arcady Genkin writes:
Well, I have two superuser accounts on my system: root with default shell
bash, and toor with default shell sh.
...
IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically
linked.
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Nov 6 19:39 /bin/sh - bash
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Nov 6 19:39 /bin/sh - bash
Geez! Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. I wonder what would
be the rationale for not including a standard sh in a distro... 8-/
Make 'sash' toor's shell.
Done. Thanks for
Brian Servis writes:
If sh - ash and 'things break' then those 'things' should call bash or
whatever shell explicitly, and a bug report should be filed against that
'thing' .
Yes, of course. However, the gentleman's goal appears to be improved
robustness, not Debian debugging.
I have had sh
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote:
I need to add a second superuser.
No you don't.
If you want someone else to have root access, then just give them the root
password.
If you want someone else to be able to do some root tasks but not really
be root, you have two choices.
1) Make the
Thinking about it, you're right so I won't use it. Thanks.
Thinking about it, you're right.
Thanks.
Patrick
William T Wilson wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote:
I need to add a second superuser.
No you don't.
If you want someone else to have root access, then just give them the root
password.
If you want someone else to be able to do some root tasks but not really
be root,
10 matches
Mail list logo
