Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> 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) ...") ?
> 
> If you really like to put ksh93 into / you would need to have extra hooks for
> all needed shared libs in /lib. Dou you really like to do this?

What do you mean with "extra hooks" ?

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Roland

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