Re: Adding a superuser

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  9 Jan, John Hasler wrote about "Re: Adding a superuser"
> Arcady Genkin writes:
>> I wonder what would be the rationale for not including a standard sh in a
>> distro.
> 
> When called as sh bash is about as standard as any.  If you don't care for
> bash you can always install ash, which is the NetBSD sh.  If you link sh to
> it you may break a few things, though.

If sh -> ash and 'things break' then those 'things' should call bash or
whatever shell explicitly, and a bug report should be filed against that
'thing' . Ash is a POSIX complient shell and supports all 'sh'
functions.  I have had sh -> ash for several months now and have not had
any problems.  

Brian Servis
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