On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 07:46:49PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote: > If the shared libraries are damaged, then how are init, getty, and > login running, in order for sashroot to be invoked? The only thing a > special UID is going to help with is if the root shell is messed up. > > A better use of sashroot is booting the machine `init=/bin/sashroot'. > Nothing is gained by having a special uid 0 account with sashroot as > its shell. Sure there is. Ever have bash become screwed up? This happened a time or two durring the hamm development. Something moves or deletes a library (even libc) and the system is running, go to an open and already loaded getty and fix it with sash.. (I have a user sash for just such a purpose)
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