On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 02:17 PM IST, Andy Fiddaman <a...@omnios.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 2021, mayur...@kathe.in wrote: > > ; On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 01:12 AM IST, "Andy Fiddaman" <a...@omnios.org> > wrote: > ; > ; > On Monday, 26 July 2021, at 5:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > ; > > PSARC/2010/067 mostly just records that it was carrying forward the > decisions > ; > made by "Project Indiana" into Solaris 11 to make the default interactive > shell > ; > for all users (including root) to be bash: > ; > Thanks Alan! > ; > ; this is the saddest note i've encountered in this mail exchange. truly sad. > > Well, I appreciate Alan taking the time to share more details about the > change and the rationale behind it. > > Not everyone will agree with the change, but then shells have always been > controversial in the UNIX world, and it looks like there were sounds reasons > behind it. > > When you create a new user via the OmniOS installer, ksh is there in the list > of shells you can choose, and you can easily change root's shell if you want. while i appreciate mr. coopersmith sharing those details, what saddened me was the level to which solaris has fallen after embracing the whole "open source components acceptance" movement. the reasons shared sounded more like political adjustments rather than technical arguments. i am aware about ksh being in the list of shells under omnios, what i can't digest is the fact that omnios had to go and make bash the default login shell, even for root. why try to fix something which isn't broken? ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b661f3611aef44c-M4c4b2af3ebc342b7515e42db Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
