Nice. All this for a guy who apparently does not even
know how to admin a unix system (developer?).

I can see application developers flying over in
droves.


--- "Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 
> > --- Gerard Nualla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > How can I make BASH the root's default shell?
> > 
> > you are new to unix are you?
> 
> Actually, as of Solaris 10 or later, it should be
> harmless, if in
> excruciatingly bad taste, not to mention dumb
> (shouldn't be
> spending enough time as root for preferences to
> matter, but
> if there's more than one admin, root's shell should
> probably be
> the least common denominator).
> 
> The out-of-the-box default shell is /sbin/sh.  Prior
> to Solaris 10,
> it was statically linked.  As of Solaris 10, it's
> dynamically linked, but
> only to files in /lib.  So is bash, but it's in
> /usr/bin.  If /usr is a separate
> filesystem, one would have to put a copy under /
> (probably as /sbin/bash).
> Then one could either edit /etc/passwd (if
> applicable) or use
> passwd -e
> (and answer the prompts) to change root's shell to
> the new one.
> 
> Possible, and probably not actually dangerous.  But
> like I said, at least
> dumb if there's more than one person that might be
> administering the
> system.
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