Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)

[Steve Willer <willer@interlog.com>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Justin Wells wrote:

> I think there are some unresolved issues that need to be decided:
> 
>    -- A way for root to get sash started, either from an existing
>       shell (presumably a static su) or from a login prompt, or 
>       via a linked and loaded sshd (which would not need to be static

If ssh is installed on a machine, I would think you would be able to
launch sash with "ssh somemachine /bin/sash". Perhaps you need -t, but it
should work. This would allow you to make use of sash at login without
setting it as anybody's shell.