On Thu 21 Sep 2006 at 12:07AM, Roland Mainz wrote: > Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > > > > >I don't know that I can argue for ksh93 versus any other shell, > > >but adding /sbin/ksh93 at least gives us one modern, more feature-rich > > >alternative to the bourne shell (/sbin/sh), for use as the root shell, > > >in JumpStart scripts, or in single-user mode, when dealing with filesystem > > >problems. > > > > I don't think that's a strong enough reason: > > > > - you can already use any shell as root shell; is /usr isn't > > mounted /sbin/sh is used instead. > > Do you mean replacing "root"'s login shell in /etc/passwd with any shell > ? Where is this documented (AFAIK the recommentation over all the years > was "... don't do that. Never. Don't touch it or your system will > explode (sooner or later) ...") ?
I improved this in Solaris 9. Here's a reference: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/9665233a4976c7fb/dcabfd29073e5795#dcabfd29073e5795 This is PSARC/2001/723 "Fallback Root Login for su(1M)" -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp
