Re: sash

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
> > match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
> > things?
> 
> I don't have enough confidence in Debian's pam, yet, to insist that
> everyone that wants to use sash must implement pam support before
> using sash.
> 
> By the way, I've written a sashconfig which offers several different
> options for managing a root account with /bin/sash as its shell.  I'm not
> going to release it yet, because I may want to make some more changes
> to it, but there should be a new sash package out before long.

Just out of curiosity, does sash support the standard -c command line
option yet? If not, I wouldn't really consider pushing it as a root
shell since it will break a lot of scripts (from cron and elsewhere).

Ben