Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:02, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not have to
> > make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled.
>
> But we make the decision to include a dynamically linked shell as root's
> login shell, which goes against years of accumulated wisdom in the Unix
> world.
>
> We try to avoid making decisions on behalf of our user, but shouldn't
> the decisions that we *do* make be the right ones? This isn't simply a
> matter of opinion. There is a very valid technical reason that root's
> shell should be statically linked. Why don't we ship with that
> configuration by default?
After reading this thread, I decided to install sash. Interestingly,
the default installation doesn't overwrite root's default shell, but
creates a _new_ root account, and even clones the password from
/etc/shadow.
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
sashroot:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sash
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