Subject: SUMMARY: Using other than Bourne shell for root on Solaris 10

From: Roger Marquis <marquis_at_roble.com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 14:47:55 EST
Rami Aubourg-kaires wrote:
> So, the safest way is to just type "ksh" or "bash" at the interactive
> shell, or export SHELL and do an "exec ksh" or an "exec bash" in the
> .profile of root.

That's one way, though not necessarily the best way.  If it encourages
partitioning /usr then it is a case of two wrongs...  Whether statically
linked or not does not really matter as you can still boot another shell,
after deleting /bin/sh.  The Solaris root shell FAQ was written long ago
to address these issues and many others:

  http://www.roble.com/docs/sol_root_shell.html

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
Received on Fri Mar 10 14:47:57 2006

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Mar 03 2016 - 06:43:56 EST