* Michael Meskes said: > > 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. > > I beg to disagree. The only cases I saw so far where the system was hosed to > an extend that life recovery was needed and still possible was when root did > something wrong or stupid. In that case you do not need to login anymore. Well, some of us had also other experiences - broken inter-library dynamic dependencies, bugs in the standard dynamically linked shells preventing them from working properly, damage of the root filesystem and probably a few more that don't fall into the category you mentioned above. marek
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