On 2 Dec 2008 at 14:33, Juan Miscaro wrote:
> 2008/12/2 Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Juan Miscaro wrote:
> >>
> >> 2008/12/2 Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>>
> >>> Juan Miscaro wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I turn off those annoying checks and I use the same password.
> >>>> Works great.
> >>>>
> >>>> /juan
> >>>>
> >>> ... until it doesn't.
> >>
> >> Got anything to back that up?
>
>
> > I remember one specially where a user had to drive about 200 miles...
> >...He forget that bash wasn't compile statically and needed library...
>
> Stop.
>
> Install bash statically linked. That's all.
You are missing a very important point that Chris Linn has aluded to:
no two shells are exactly alike and sooner or later a script written
for one will blow-up in another. And since OpenBSD comes with and
reasonably assumes that /bin/sh is the Korn Shell, all system (i.e.
root) scripts are written accordingly. The converse is also a likely
problem -- you install bash as root shell and start installing bash-
specific scripts critical for system operation. Then during an upgrade
bash is no longer available or is no longer statically compiled
(remember bash in packages is dynamic and you have to upgrade the base
OS before you can custom build your bastardized port...)
The long and the short of it has been repeated here many times:
"leave the root shell alove"
>
> /juan
