* Michael Meskes said: > So I guess you need neither mount nor tar nor gzip. And instead of packaging > a static ar how about adding some ar core to sash? I'm sure the upstream > author would like that. ar is too complex to put it into sash without sacrificing space. Same goes for e2fsck etc. > > -- su, sulogin (ensure that you can get to a root shell) > > Why? Sorry, I missed part of this thread so maybe it was explained earlier, > but you can boot directly into sash and you can make a root account that has > sash as shell. I for one have sash as my root shell, but if you don't like > it why not creating a sashroot, or as BSD (?) names it a toor account? The thing is we want to avoid booting and thus we need a way to get onto the root account (or sashroot) from your shell prompt when dynamics are broken - you need su (or similar) for that. > In fact this was discussed a lot of months ago. I hvae no idea why it never > made it into the passwd file. Me neither. It's needed though. marek
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