Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

[Derek Martin]

Today, Jerry Feldman gleaned this insight:

> I fully agree with that. This was a small company, with one Unix System 
> admin guy who was a total jerk. Interestingly, the project I was on owned 
> all of the systems. Even the manager of the group could not get them to 
> allow the engineers to have root passwords on their own systems. One 

I agree with that policy.  Engineers almost never really need the root
password to do their jobs, and often it poses very unpleasant security
problems, as we are currently trying to deal with.

HOWEVER, there's no excuse for turning down a request to add a shell
(especially a major one like ksh) to /etc/shells.  It's just not a big
deal.  And hell, csh isn't even a real shell!  ;)


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