Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 20-Aug-99, 05:26 (CDT), Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> wrote:
> > * Craig Sanders said:
> > > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:13:43AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > > > root's shell is nothing but a root's shell. SYSTEM shell is /bin/sh - and
> > > > changing the latter shouldn't be done lightly.
> > >
> > > i repeat: this does not match my experience of changing root's shell on
> > > other systems.
> > Debian survives - I checked it :)). As I said, at home my root shell is sash
> > - crontabs and everything else works just fine.
>
> No, *your* particular instance of Debian survived. *Your* crontabs
> worked fine.
Yes, and so will any other instance which doesn't do something utterly
ridiculous like right shell scripts that open /etc/passwd, find root's shell,
and then exec $ROOTSHELL $0 "$@". Please, people, this is a non-issue.
-- Nathaniel
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